Deployments are now up to 7 seconds faster
Deployments are now up to 7 seconds faster end-to-end through platform optimizations that removed fixed overhead and CLI improvements. The improvements are most noticeable on smaller builds where orchestration overhead represents a larger share of total build time.
Over the past few months, we've made deployments up to 7 seconds faster end to end. We removed up to 5 seconds of fixed platform overhead from every build, and deploys from the latest Vercel CLI save up to 2 seconds more. The improvements are most noticeable on smaller builds, where orchestration represents a larger share of the total build time.
The largest platform gains:
These apply automatically to builds triggered through Git, the dashboard, or Vercel CLI. Deployments from the latest CLI finish up to another 2.1 seconds sooner:
Combined, a small build deployed from the latest CLI is up to faster end to end. Run to update.7 secondsvercel upgrade
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: Internal build-process shutdown now happens outside the critical path to deployment readiness~2.2s
: The Vercel CLI is prepared ahead of time inside the secure, isolated build environment, removing startup work from the critical path~930ms
: Deployment finalization starts earlier, processing routing and output metadata concurrently with other work~413ms
: Redundant API and storage requests are eliminated across build start and finalization, including fetching deployment configuration concurrently with the build and loading build records directly by ID~900ms
: The CLI completes as soon as the event stream reports domain aliases are assigned, instead of waiting for the next polling interval~1s
: The deployment's team is resolved directly instead of loading the complete team list~650ms
: Deployment and project information already returned to the CLI is reused instead of making two final API requests~500ms
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