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How Elkjøp Transformed Retail with Next.js and Vercel | Customers | Vercel

How Elkjøp Transformed Retail with Next.js and Vercel | Customers | Vercel

7/24/2024

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This post details how Elkjøp, a large retail company, migrated their e-commerce platform from an Angular, self-hosted Kubernetes setup to Next.js and Vercel. The migration resulted in significant improvements in release cycle time (from 7 weeks to 1 day), Cumulative Layout Shift (93%), Interaction to Next Paint (60%), and Largest Contentful Paint (50%). The post highlights the challenges of their previous platform, including slow page loads, SEO struggles, and inefficient developer experience, and how Next.js and Vercel addressed these issues through automated deployments, preview environments, and feature flags. The technical details include the impact on developer ownership and the ability to iterate faster.

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