What does Vercel do?
Vercel builds a frontend-as-a-service product—they make it easy for engineers to deploy and run the user facing parts of their applications. Applications have two parts: the frontend and the backend (have I mentioned this before???) The frontend is usually deployed with the backend on a single server (or set of servers), which means infrastructure to set up and manage Vercel lets teams deploy their frontend stupidly easily, separately from their backend Deploying with Vercel gives you nice features like deploy previews, functions as a service, analytics, and more Beyond just the frontend, Vercel has been adding cloud-like features li...