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1,182 articles published in 2026.

Frontend — Advancing Python typing

Advancing Python typing

PEP 827 introduces type manipulation to Python, bringing programmable, TypeScript-inspired type features to improve static typing, metaprogramming, and framework ergonomics.

VVercel·July 2, 2026Frontend
Performance — Building the Black Friday-Cyber Monday live dashboard

Building the Black Friday-Cyber Monday live dashboard

See how we built the data-heavy Black Friday-Cyber Monday dashboard to be cost-efficient, fast, and accurate. Building a data-heavy, real-time dashboard with a good user experience comes with challenges. Let's walk through how we overcame them.

VVercel·July 2, 2026Performance
AI & ML — Fluid compute: Evolving serverless for AI workloads

Fluid compute: Evolving serverless for AI workloads

Fluid, our newly announced compute model, eliminates wasted compute by maximizing resource efficiency. Instead of launching a new function for every request, it intelligently reuses available capacity, ensuring that compute isn’t sitting idle.

VVercel·July 2, 2026AI & ML
Performance — Introducing Active CPU pricing for Fluid compute

Introducing Active CPU pricing for Fluid compute

Fluid compute now uses Active CPU pricing. Only pay CPU rates when your function is actively computing. Building on existing Fluid gains, this brings additional savings of up to 90% for workloads like LLM calls, AI agents, or tasks with idle time.

VVercel·July 2, 2026Performance
Frontend — Vercel supports HIPAA compliance

Vercel supports HIPAA compliance

Vercel now supports HIPAA compliance for our enterprise customers, enabling companies to leverage our Frontend Cloud while maintaining compliance

VVercel·July 2, 2026Frontend
AI & ML — AI Gateway production index

AI Gateway production index

The state of production AI in 2026. Data from seven months of AI Gateway traffic across hundreds of models and tens of trillions of tokens.

VVercel·July 2, 2026AI & ML
Performance — Build realtime voice agents on AI Gateway

Build realtime voice agents on AI Gateway

Audio/voice support is live on AI Gateway, with realtime. Build realtime, low-latency voice agents with the AI SDK on Vercel AI Gateway, plus text to speech and speech to text behind one API key and your existing tooling.

VVercel·July 2, 2026Performance
AI & ML — Making AI search smarter

Making AI search smarter

Search is how we find nearly everything on the web — creators, merchants, answers. AI is rewriting the rules, leaving creators caught between staying discoverable in an agentic era and getting paid for their work. Today we're launching two initiatives to help.

MCMatthew ConroyMatthew Conroy·July 1, 2026AI & ML
AI & ML — Your site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers

Your site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers

For our second Content Independence Day, we’re giving website owners finer options to manage AI traffic. Instead of a one-size-fits-all block, all customers can now easily distinguish and manage Search, Agent, and Training bots, alongside the new ability to protect ad-monetized pages.

JHJin Hee Lee, Bryan BeckerJin Hee Lee, Bryan Becker·July 1, 2026AI & ML
SRE & Ops — Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale

Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale

Over the past several years, model capabilities and training dataset sizes have experienced exponential growth. During the past year or so, the time between new-frontier-model releases has gone down from months to weeks. Reliable and fast access to storage is important to both the speed and computational cost of this AI innovation. If AI is […]

CWChris Wiltz·July 1, 2026SRE & Ops
AI & ML — 10 Years of Meta’s Commitment to Python

10 Years of Meta’s Commitment to Python

This year marks Meta’s 10th consecutive year as a sponsor of the Python Software Foundation (PSF), the charitable organization dedicated to advancing, supporting, and protecting the open-source Python programming language and the community that sustains it. Python is one of the world’s most influential programming languages, and we use it across our engineering stack, from […]

CWChris Wiltz·June 30, 2026AI & ML
Engineering — Vercel Ship 2026 recap

Vercel Ship 2026 recap

For a decade, Vercel has shaped how the web gets built. Now, we’re doing the same for agents. Vercel Ship 2026 brought over 2,500 people to London to build on Agentic Infrastructure.

VVercel·June 30, 2026Engineering
Performance — Run any Dockerfile on Vercel

Run any Dockerfile on Vercel

Vercel now runs any HTTP server straight from a Dockerfile. Bring a Rails, Django, Spring Boot, or Go app and Vercel builds, deploys, autoscales, and runs it on Fluid compute with Active CPU pricing.

VVercel·June 30, 2026Performance
Frontend — Vercel Services: Run full stack on Vercel

Vercel Services: Run full stack on Vercel

Run your whole backend on Vercel. Vercel Services deploys your frontend and every backend as one project, with routing, environment variables, and internal service-to-service communication wired automatically.

VVercel·June 30, 2026Frontend
Engineering — Highlights from Git 2.55

Highlights from Git 2.55

The open source Git project just released Git 2.55. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

TBTaylor BlauTaylor Blau·June 29, 2026Engineering
AI & ML — AI SDK 7 is now available

AI SDK 7 is now available

AI SDK is the TypeScript SDK for building AI applications, features, frameworks, and agents across any model provider. AI SDK 7 focuses on what it takes to run AI in production.

VVercel·June 25, 2026AI & ML