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Vercel

Made Crystal Clear

A practical, visual guide to shipping, caching, and paying for web apps on the platform that hosts Next.js

Vercel makes deploying a web app feel like magic, and then sends an invoice that nobody taught you how to read. This guide fixes both halves. You will trace a request from git push to served byte, learn what Active CPU really bills you for, cap your spend before a bot wave does it for you, and find out why a single ISR detail on a dynamic route can triple a bill. It is also honest about the question every developer eventually asks: do I even need Vercel? Chapter 13 does that arithmetic with real numbers, and the answer is not always yes.

Pages
154
Level
Beginner to advanced
Status
Available
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Inside the book

  1. 01What Vercel Actually Is
  2. 02The Mental Model: Git Push to Served Request
  3. 03Your First Deploy in Five Minutes
  4. 04How Vercel Actually Bills You
  5. 05The Edge Network and the Cache
  6. 06Vercel Functions
  7. 07Routing, Config, and Middleware
  8. 08Environments, Variables, and the Git Workflow
  9. 09Domains, DNS, and TLS
  10. 10Data, Storage, and the Marketplace
  11. 11Security, Firewall, and Bot Traffic
  12. 12Observability: Logs, Analytics, and Debugging
  13. 13The Money Chapter: Vercel, Self-Hosting, and the Alternatives
  14. 14The Production Playbook and Cheat Sheet
  15. 15Where to Go Next

You'll leave with

  • Draw the line between what Next.js does and what Vercel does
  • Read your usage page and name your top three cost drivers
  • Cap spend before real traffic arrives, and know what pausing does

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