Vercel's Black Friday-Cyber Monday 2024 recap

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This post details Vercel's performance and operational metrics during Black Friday-Cyber Monday 2024, highlighting the handling of 86.7 billion requests, 1.9 million peak requests per second, and 2.4 million deployments. It emphasizes the platform's ability to scale dynamically, mitigate DDoS attacks (1.75M+ per second), and invoke a large number of functions (28.9B+). Specific features like function failover regions, auto-scaling concurrency, Routing Middleware, ISR, framework-defined infrastructure, instant rollbacks, and the Vercel WAF are highlighted for their role in ensuring reliability and security during peak traffic. The post also notes an 80% growth in peak requests per second compared to BFCM 2023.