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How the world’s biggest YouTuber served millions of users on Vercel

How the world’s biggest YouTuber served millions of users on Vercel

9/29/2022

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This post details how basement.studio used Vercel to build and scale MrBeast's storefront, handling unprecedented traffic volumes. It highlights the use of Vercel for fast iteration, reliable scaling during peak traffic, and setting a platform record for site requests. The technical implementation involved server-side game logic using Shopify's Admin API for discount codes and a type-safe connection to Shopify's Storefront API via a custom library (react-dropify). Observability was managed with Axiom.

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