Life of a Vercel request: What happens when a user presses enter
An educational guide explaining how Vercel analyzes codebases, provisions cloud resources, routes requests to the nearest data center, and handles request processing end-to-end to optimize user experiences.
When developers push code, Vercel’s analyzes the codebase and intelligently provisions cloud resources. When requests come in, Vercel’s infrastructure instantly routes them to the nearest data center over a high-speed, low-latency network, delivering a response right back to the user.framework-defined infrastructure
Vercel handles all of this behind the scenes. But understanding how your framework code powers the infrastructure—from deployment to request handling—gives you insight into how Vercel’s components work together, and enables you to further optimize user experiences.
Here’s how Vercel manages requests at every stage.
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