Vercel Deployment Overview Vercel is a cloud platform for deploying frontend frameworks and serverless functions with automatic CI/CD, preview deployments, and edge infrastructure. Projects are configured via (or programmatic ), the Vercel dashboard, or the Vercel CLI. When to use: Static sites, SSR frameworks (Next.js, SvelteKit, Nuxt), serverless API routes, edge functions, preview environments per pull request, monorepo deployments. When NOT to use: Long-running backend processes (use containers), WebSocket servers (use dedicated infrastructure), heavy compute workloads (use cloud VMs), ap…