Vercel Community Session: Optimising usage on Vercel

hello welcome to this week's Verso community live session i'm Amy i'm one of the community uh team here at Purcell

and I'm going to be one of your moderators for today uh if you don't see the chat make sure you're signed in and click going on the event listing and then you'll be able to see the chat uh before we begin I just want to remind everyone of our community code of conduct um you can find that linked up above in the site nav and below in the site footer um and let's just continue to keep it a positive space for everyone so we can keep doing these events if you feel comfortable sharing where you're listening from you can let us know in the chat we love to see where

everyone is tuning in from and of course feel free to share any of your comments and questions we'll save those and ask them at the end and I'd like to uh hand it over to Archa thanks Amy hi everyone i'm Archa and I am part of the customer success team here at Versel i'm really excited to be here it's an absolute pleasure to be part of this vibrant and growing community of developers builders and innovators in my role I'm here to ensure

that you're getting most value from Versel whether you are just starting out or already deploying at scale i also want to give a quick shout out to our amazing community team they are dedicated to supporting you with expert solutions and workarounds for any versal platform issues you might run into whether it is through personalized assistance or easy to access self-s served content they're always working to make your experience smoother and seamless so if you haven't already I

encourage you get involved ask questions share your feedback and connect with others we are all here to grow together thank you so much for joining today's session all right so super excited for this one joining us today is Jonathan Alfred from Robboto Studio so he started the studio to cut through the noise of bloated agencies focusing on speed simplicity and cuttingedge web tech his

team builds top tier editorial experiences and was among the early adopters of AI tools like VZero today he is diving into how they optimize their versal usage and workflows so Jonathan over to you hey everybody how's it going um so this is uh optimizing usage on Versell and I want to talk to you about a couple of the different things that we do in house

um and we'll start with the agenda so first of all uh let's kind of break this down into how we actually diagnose what's causing the overage um how we handle fetching how we handle caching um when we talk about media what do we actually do when we come to optimizing it and finally we're going to use AI to essentially roll up everything we've learned today um and put it into a set of actionable uh rules so let's start from the first one

diagnosing so the first thing I'm going to talk about is observability if you haven't used observability it's an incredible tool um and you probably want to enable observability plus if you're on the enterprise package um essentially you want to use it to tackle the lowhanging fruits and let's talk about that so if you're looking at this here the first thing you want to notice is what can we actually tell from these graphs and what should we be looking at um and the first thing that stands out to me is the versel functions so um the versel functions you see these gigantic