Guillermo Rauch
Each day ~10 million deployments are made on Vercel, with 2.35 billion made to date. Vercel is one of the most heavily multi-tenant systems in the world. Billions of application deployments co-exist and are accessible ('routable') on our CDN at any given moment. Underlying our CDN is a global metadata store that synchronizes within hundreds of milliseconds, globally. e.g: when you roll back, change config, add routes, etc. We just made this system 91% faster at p99, and in the process sped up the build→deploy pipeline. All of this while the system is under immense pressure from the growth in agentic deployments. Great read on the internals of Vercel from our CDN engineering team:
Vercel Developers
The Vercel CDN makes over 80 million routing decisions per second. We cut P99 metadata lookup latency by 91%, helping requests reach your pages faster and speeding up deployments along the way ↓ https://vercel.com/blog/how-we-cut-cdn-metadata-lookup-latency-by-91-percent