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Introducing Skew Protection - Vercel

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Skew Protection from Vercel, a mechanism to eliminate version skew

A novel, more reliable mechanism for application deployment. Have you ever seen a 404 for requests from old clients after a deployment? Or gotten a 500 error because the client didn’t know that a new server deployment changed an API? We're introducing a generic fix for this problem space. Vercel customers are deploying over 6 million times per month, making their businesses more successful one commit at a time. But since the dawn of the distributed computing age, each system deployment has introduced the risk of breakage: When client and server deployments aren’t perfectly in sync, and they wo

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