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Vercel Blog

Building a viral application to visualize train routes

When inspiration struck to visualize train routes across Europe, he created a Next.js application on Vercel in the moment of inspiration. To his surprise, his project ended up generating over a million views, reaching the top of Hacker News and going viral on Twitter.Benjamin Td Read more

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Vercel Blog

How to run A/B tests with Next.js and Vercel

Running A/B tests is hard. We all know how important it is for our business–it helps us understand how users are interacting with our products in the real world. However, a lot of the A/B testing solutions are done on the client side, which introduces as variants are dynamically injected after the initial page load. This negatively impacts your websites performance and creates a subpar user experience.layout shift To get the best of both worlds, we built : code that runs  serving requests from

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PlanetScale Blog

TAOBench: Running social media workloads on PlanetScale

As PlanetScale expands its customer base, our Tech Solutions team often gets to collaborate with companies trying to evaluate whether PlanetScale fits their existing development stack’s requirements. Understanding the impact of database performance and how it relates to an application’s overall performance profile can be a complicated exercise, so being able to reference standardized benchmark workloads can be helpful to build a deeper understanding of what to expect. Last week, we published a f

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Next.js Blog

Next.js 12.3

Next.js 12.3 introduces TypeScript Auto-Install, improved Fast Refresh, stable new Image Component, and more!

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