July 2021 Summaries

Vercel has announced that Kathy Korevec will be joining their leadership team as Head of Product, bringing her expertise in developer experience from companies like Google, Heroku, and GitHub. Kathy is passionate about open source, usability of developer tools, and making software development accessible to anyone worldwide. She aims to accelerate Vercel's mission to provide the best Developer Experience for customers and the community. With a focus on clearing a path for solutions and keeping developers at the forefront, Kathy will help build a faster and more performant web.

The Vercel team has upgraded their Integration Marketplace with a focus on streamlining installation, reducing configuration, and increasing visibility for developers. This upgrade enables users to discover, install, and configure integrations more easily, while simplifying the process of integrating with the Vercel platform. The marketplace now features partnerships with popular services such as PlanetScale, Fauna, Sanity, Shopify, BigCommerce, Datadog, Logflare, Checkly, Sentry, Clerk, and Doppler, providing developers with a wide range of integrations to enhance their development experience. These integrations enable users to build scalable applications, monitor performance, manage authentication, and more, making it easier for them to focus on building innovative projects.