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When Graphite outgrew its simple SPA architecture, engineers faced a critical infrastructure decision: Vercel's convenience versus AWS ECS's control. Their containerized Next.js migration delivered unexpected performance parity with edge computing while unlocking deployment flexibility and cost efficiency. This deep dive reveals why unconventional infrastructure choices sometimes trump defaults.

A developer documents their journey creating a custom task management app using NextJS for the frontend and Go for the backend, emphasizing GitHub integration and SQLite database design. The project prioritizes extensibility for future mobile apps and workflow optimization, offering insights into architectural trade-offs.

A developer shares insights from a learning project tackling high-stakes infrastructure challenges: preventing link abuse while maintaining sub-second redirects, implementing privacy-focused analytics at scale, and optimizing write-heavy workloads. The stack leverages Next.js Edge Middleware with Redis and MongoDB for a real-world stress test of distributed systems principles.

Platformatic's Watt 3.18.0 integrates Next.js 16's explicit 'use cache' directive, enabling component-level caching in production via a new Redis/Valkey adapter. This solves critical self-hosting challenges like cache inconsistencies in scaled deployments, delivering Vercel-like performance without platform lock-in. Developers now have zero-config tools for fine-grained control and resource efficiency at scale.

A new open-source utility, React Source Lens, lets developers jump from any rendered React component directly to its source file and line with a single keystroke. It’s a small DX tweak with big implications for debugging, onboarding, and navigating sprawling frontends.

Next.js 16 beta introduces groundbreaking performance enhancements with Turbopack as the default bundler, delivering 2-5x faster builds. The release also revolutionizes routing efficiency with layout deduplication, introduces smarter caching APIs, and brings stable React Compiler integration—setting new standards for modern web development.