Hashnode, a blogging platform for developers built using Next.js, chose Vercel as its infrastructure provider due to the ability to manage custom domains at scale and a smooth developer experience. With Vercel, Hashnode's engineering team saves time by previewing deployments and testing changes in a production-like environment without configuring staging. Migrating to Vercel also enhanced how Hashnode monitors and optimizes speed, with Vercel's Edge Network guaranteeing fast and delightful blogging experiences that rank higher in search results due to lightning-fast load times and automatically optimized images.