Update regarding Vercel service disruption on August 7, 2024

What this post added

Details an incident where an upstream provider for Edge Middleware and Edge Functions caused a 26-minute outage due to an erroneous configuration state. Vercel mitigated the issue via a config override and is implementing future mitigations including improved configuration management with the provider, developing a backup option for Edge Middleware/Functions, and unifying the compute subsystem for Edge, Edge Middleware, and Serverless Functions.