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The Frontend Cloud: Powering resiliency for global web applications

What's this blog post about?

The Frontend Cloud, powered by Vercel, offers a resilient foundation for global web applications, ensuring business continuity and customer trust. It enables effortless scaling to meet high demand, decreases reliance on backend providers, actively defends against threats, and provides peace of mind that service interruptions will be rapidly resolved. The platform's serverless architecture dynamically manages compute resources for each request, allowing applications to handle traffic spikes without manual intervention. Major clients such as Under Armour, Sonos, NZXT, and The Washington Post have experienced significant improvements in site performance during peak traffic events with Vercel's Frontend Cloud. Additionally, the platform offers built-in high availability features, including regional failover, durable caching, backend failover, and instant rollback capabilities. Security measures include managed infrastructure, threat detection, isolated systems, private connections, deployment authentication, and SAML SSO integration. Vercel's robust service interruption response process ensures timely resolution and transparent communication with customers during unexpected incidents.

Company
Vercel

Date published
Feb. 29, 2024

Author(s)
Alice Alexandra Moore

Word count
2071

Hacker News points
1

Language
English


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