The Washington Post paid off tech debt by migrating to Next.js and Vercel between primary season and the 2022 US midterm elections. It reaped dividends. Many Vercel and Next.js users deal with large swaths of data. But few wrangle data in the way The Washington Post Elections Engineering team does. Knowing their platform must be fast and visually compelling—all while handling constant updates from thousands of federal, state, and local elections—The Post moved to Next.js and Vercel for the 2022 US midterm elections. Link to heading The unique challenges of a newsroom engineer Tyler Fisher is a Principal Software Engineer on the Election Engineering team. He elevates and innovates how The Post uses political and election data. “We do that by building data pipelines, predictive models, and compelling visuals for readers,” Fisher says.…