A reflection on Guillermo Roach's Config 2023 talk, "The shape of future builders: from design to deploy."
At Figma Config 2023, Guillermo Rauch delivered a keynote centered on accelerating digital innovation through tools that reshape the web development landscape. The core message: Vercel is working to let builders—including non-developers—compress the loop between design and deployment.
Here’s a look behind the scenes of that talk, plus practical routes into trying Vercel’s Frontend Cloud for yourself.
You can now scope access to individual Workers and assign narrower Developer Platform roles, so teammates, CI tokens, and agents get only the access they need to debug, deploy, or monitor safely.
We’re introducing ZGateway, the proxy we are using to unify traffic through ZippyDB, Meta’s most widely-used key value store. As a bonus, it also enables admission control, load balancing, cross-region resilience, and richer operations. ZippyDB is the most widely used key value store at Meta, backing product metadata, counters, and configuration, and can serve billions […]
Training and serving frontier AI models depends on fast, reliable networks that move data between GPUs without wasting compute cycles. To meet this challenge at scale, Meta designed MetaRoCE – a clean-sheet RDMA transport protocol purpose-built for AI workloads on commodity Ethernet. We’re releasing the MetaRoCE specification, a reference software implementation and a compliance test […]