Vercel's platform provides speed, reliability, and the convenience of not having to worry about setting up and maintaining your own infrastructur

Behind the scenes of Vercel's infrastructure: Achieving optimal scalability and performance

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Vercel's platform provides speed, reliability, and the convenience of not having to worry about setting up and maintaining your own infrastructure. But what exactly goes on behind the scenes when we deploy our projects to Vercel, and what happens when you make a request to a site on the platform?

This post will go behind the scenes, explaining how Vercel builds and deploys serverless applications for maximum scalability, performance, and fast iterations.

Deployments start with code written in one of the over 35 frameworks supported by Vercel, or by using the Build Output API. Deployments can be created through the Vercel CLI or by pushing code to your git repository. The Vercel Git integration automatically listens for your commit and triggers a new deployment.

A POST request is made containing the project’s files to be uploaded to a scalable, secure, and highly durable data storage service¹.