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Vercel Blog

Vercel Cron Jobs are now generally available

This changelog entry is historical. Edge Functions are deprecated for new projects. Use with the Node.js runtime and . Use for request-time routing before a response completes.Note:Vercel FunctionsFluid computeRouting Middleware Vercel Cron Jobs let you to run scheduled jobs for things like data backups or archives, triggering updates to third-party APIs, sending email and Slack notifications, or any task you need to run on a schedule. By using a specific syntax called a , you can define the

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PlanetScale Blog

A guide to HTML email with Ruby on Rails and Tailwind CSS

Being in someone’s inbox is a privilege. At PlanetScale, we spend a great amount of time and detail making sure we get it right. We recently shipped weekly database report emails. These report emails are sent out weekly to give you an easy way to see database performance, activity, and actionable next steps. In this article, we’ll cover how we built the HTML emails that power our weekly database reports using Ruby on Rails and Tailwind CSS and how we overcame some of the challenges we faced. Thi

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Vercel Blog

Partial prerendering: Building towards a new default rendering model for web applications

At this year’s , we discussed the developer and user experience challenges of global delivery of dynamic web applications. How can we fetch data without expensive waterfalls and also deliver content directly from the edge?Next.js Conf The answer to all of these current challenges: Partial Prerendering (PPR). PPR combines ultra-quick static edge delivery with fully dynamic capabilities and we believe it has the potential to become the default rendering model for web applications, bringing togethe

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