"Technically" newsletter founder Justin Gage explains how Vercel makes building web applications as easy as possible, powered by the frontend cloud. 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 like storage and databases While how you deployed your frontend was nobody’s business a few years ago, tools like Vercel are now (maybe?) the standard for how teams get their frontends up on the web.…