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Something I noticed a long time ago is that Vercel turns everything they touch into being 10 times harder than it needs to be. I have come to conclude it is th
by 9rx 10mo ago
Something I noticed a long time ago is that Vercel turns everything they touch into being 10 times harder than it needs to be.
I have come to conclude it is that way because they focus on optimizing for a demo case that presents well to non-technical stakeholders. Doing one particular thing that looks good at a glance gets the buy-in, and then those who bought in never have to deal with the consequences of the decision once it is time to build something other than the demo.
- skeptrune 10mo agoI blame this more on NextJS than Vercel, but agree in spirit. Their architecture creates a pit of failure where you're encouraged to fall into a fully dynamic pattern and is a huge trap. However, it's probably more inexperience than anything. Nobody senior was around to tell our founders that they should go for a SSG architecture when they started /shrug. It's mostly worked out anyways though haha.
- 0x3f 10mo agoI'm no fan of Vercel, but it's kind of the symptom of a wider pattern, right? I see crazy architecture astronaut setups in so many places. It's true non-technical stakeholders can cause problems but I often see it pushed from inside the tech org too. I'm thinking it's some combination of resume-driven development, misunderstanding of 'scalability'/when it's needed, and intra-org working-together problems where it's easier to just make a new service and assert your dominion over it.