Vercel has a new low-level untrusted and ephemeral compute platform—designed to give us the control needed to securely and efficiently manage and run builds. Since November 2023, this compute platform, internally codenamed "Hive", has powered Vercel’s builds, enabling key improvements like enhanced build machines and a 30% improvement in build performance. The platform operates on the fundamental assumption that we’re executing potentially malicious code on multi-tenant machines, requiring it to be safe, reliable, performant, and cost-effective.

It’s architected to handle multiple use cases and can be composed in different ways depending on what’s needed. Most recently, Hive allowed us to reduce customers from 90 seconds to 5 seconds, while also improving their build speeds.provisioning times for Secure Compute We built Hive because we needed finer control and more granular management to continuously improve Vercel’s infrastructure, to meet the growing demands of our customers and to fulfill our vision of delivering the best development experience in the world. Read more