Module 4: Shipping Global — Vercel Dashboard Deployment
Production Deployment & Global Edge Benchmarking
Overview
It's time to take our application off localhost and ship it to production. We configure our repository pipelines, map production environment variables, deploy to Vercel's global network, and run a final live-testing benchmark to measure edge performance.
Key Takeaways
Git to Production Workflow: Pushing a local development environment securely to GitHub and linking deployment pipelines with Vercel.
Dashboard Environment Security: Properly configuring API credentials on production instances without leaking client-side access tokens.
Edge Verification: Testing real-time streaming speeds directly on a live
.vercel.appproduction URL to verify zero-cold-start delivery.
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