Live from AWS re:Invent with Guillermo Rauch of Vercel

so welcome back to the mongodb stand at AWS re invent and welcome back to our live streams that are happening on YouTube and Linkedin this is our last live stream of the show but we've in my view saved the best to last we're delighted to be joining you by Guillermo Raj the CEO of Versailles Guillermo welcome thank you I'm excited to be here excellent excellent so for our audience and and the people here just tell us a little bit about versaille and and

next.js as well too yeah so versell is the platform for front-end developers uh we created a popular framework called next.js our our ecosystem is very based on open source technology so we contribute a number of front-end Frameworks like next.js as well Etc and we're here at AWS re invent because when you deploy these Frameworks to the first cell Cloud we turn your front end into serverless infrastructure so we help companies scale and operate the fastest websites in front is on the internet and

we partner with companies like to get data into those front-ends excellent and talk to us about those companies that Versailles serves what kind of customers do you have and what's the typical use cases yeah so a lot of our customers are in e-commerce okay so you have folks that want to speed up their storefronts so they use an xjs and Versa and they connect to headless Commerce platforms we have customers in SAS Cutting Edge technology we have customers in media like we talked about the Washington Post and how they served millions of people that were watching

the elections uh time on the web and they used Nexus and Versa to scale up to lots of traffic while also iterating very very fast on these front-end projects so scale is is superb I know when we speak about next GS and Versa numbers are in the millions and and even in the billions when we're talking about requests how many billion requests are you handling a month yeah it's fluctuating rapidly okay okay because we're serverless of course but also because of Black Friday right yeah but

uh we're seeing upwards of 35 billion requests a week hitting our Edge Network Anything another common theme that we have with is this idea of going global so when you deployed over cell we don't ask you to say like what region do you want to deploy to it's like we deploy globally we operate in Edge Network so when we talk about all these requests you can think about them going to like dozens of cities uh all over the world where we're collocating your front end as close as possible to the customer

to make your applications really fast that's fascinating and so what sort of tech stack enables that sort of scale and speed for sure so at the very edge of the network we saw started with running Edge compute okay what does this mean you can start um kind of you take the request and you can say I want to render a page as fast as possible but I also want to make it Dynamic I want to empower the customer to say what are your preferences uh what's your order history what is the

price on this page can I do an experiment can I turn on feature Flags so a lot of the workloads that we do are Dynamic so we run JavaScript in the webassembly at the edge and then we also run it at the region close to the database so kind of to empower you to co-locate your compute where it belongs wow fascinating so before we talk about mongodb and Versa let's go back a little bit because you created an open sourced Mongoose so back in the day essentially I wrote the odm library for mongodb and

node.js what prompted you to do that how did it come about and and it's still widely been used yeah so the key thing is for me it's always started with the developer experience so when I first used I wanted to make it ergonomic for myself and going back to this I love the word ergonomics okay I love it it's like you have a tool it has to be ergonomic right um so nowadays we call this developer experience at the time I didn't have the moniker for it but I want to move fast