3 posts tagged with "vercel"

Few developers like writing document​

If you have ever worked as a developer in a large company, you know that coding is just one small part of the daily responsibilities. One of Google's full-stack software engineers, Ray Farias, once estimated that developers write about 100-150 lines of code per day at Google. While this estimate may vary across different teams, the order of magnitude matches my observations as a developer at Microsoft.

Edge has been a buzzword for web development for a while, but the reality is the ecosystem support is still lagging, many tools and libraries are not ready for it yet. We've recently been working on adapting ZenStack to the edge runtime. As we're wrapping up the work, it's time to share our struggles and learnings with you.

Vercel is a fantastic cloud platform that stands out from the crowd by its simplicity and excellent developer experience. One reason for its success is the intense focus on full-stack Javascript web apps. However, that doesn't mean you can't deploy a headless service on Vercel.

In this post, let's have fun building a secure database-centric RESTful API with Express.js, Prisma, and ZenStack, and deploying it onto Vercel. We'll also leverage the new Vercel Postgres offering for data persistence.