Designing and building the Vercel Ship conference platform

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This post details the engineering behind the Vercel Ship conference platform, highlighting the use of Next.js, Postgres, and Payload CMS. It showcases how Vercel's platform, including Fluid Compute, ISR, Partial Prerendering, and the `use cache` directive, was used to build a fast and editable conference experience. The use of AI for visual prototyping and v0 for UI generation is also discussed, along with the development of modular, themeable components using shadcn, Geist, and cva.