February 2025 Summaries

Avanade, the world's leading expert on Microsoft, transformed its digital landscape by adopting a headless approach with Sitecore XM Cloud and Vercel. This migration enabled the company to establish a modern, composable system capable of delivering highly responsive experiences to global clients. The new stack combined edge computing, automatic scaling, and user-friendly CI/CD workflows, resulting in improved performance, reduced carbon emissions, and enhanced developer experience. With Vercel's Edge Network intelligently caching and delivering content, Avanade achieved a 42% decrease in carbon emissions and streamlined deployments, allowing the company to respond more quickly to market needs while retaining its existing technology foundations. The transition also provided Avanade with a decoupled frontend framework, paving the way for a more modular, adaptable architecture.

Vercel has strengthened its defenses, improving response times and adding visibility for developers. The company's security capabilities now combine real-time DDoS mitigation, a powerful Web Application Firewall (WAF), and seamless SIEM integrations to provide always-on protection without added complexity. In the last quarter of 2024, Vercel blocked 87 billion attacks from 19 million unique IPs, with its firewall offering network-wide Layer 3 and Layer 4 protection, automatically mitigating DDoS threats and TCP-based attacks before they can reach applications. The company has also enhanced threat mitigation by processing malicious traffic in real time and improving mitigation features, reducing costs and preventing threats from reaching applications. Additionally, Vercel has improved visibility and alerting capabilities, providing developers with more granular Firewall data and enabling them to filter blocked requests by actions and see more details like IP Country and User Agent. The company is also expanding its security offerings to meet compliance standards, such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and is building a more secure web together with the Vercel Community. As the security landscape continues to evolve, Vercel is focusing on addressing emerging threats like DDoS attacks, sophisticated bots, and the Human Layer, and will continue to develop product features and internal programs that safeguard its customers and protect the end-user experience.

Speakeasy, a company that specializes in building developer-focused SDKs, adopted v0 to bridge the workflow from design to code. This allowed them to accelerate rapid prototyping and reduce implementation time, especially with their "design as code" philosophy which focuses on movement, behavior, and interaction rather than just visual appearance. By using v0 as a dynamic design descriptor, Speakeasy's team can quickly explore ideas, collaborate in real-time, and refine user experience without the friction of translating static designs into code. The company also uses a custom Tailwind configuration to build and style components according to their design system, and has seen significant benefits such as accelerating iteration, improving product quality, and keeping design and engineering in sync.

Fluid compute is a new model for web application infrastructure that optimizes performance and cost. It eliminates the need for over-provisioning and scaling challenges, providing auto-scaling and pay-as-you-go pricing while minimizing cold starts and inefficient use of idle time. Fluid compute uses mini-servers to achieve high-performance execution and reduces compute costs by up to 85%. The model triggers only when needed, supports real-time scaling from zero to peak traffic, and bills based on actual compute usage. It also prioritizes existing resources before creating new instances, eliminating hard scaling limits and leveraging warm compute for faster, more efficient scaling. Additionally, Fluid minimizes cold starts by reducing their frequency and softening their impact, and supports advanced tasks like streaming and post-response processing without requiring zero configuration or maintenance overhead.