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Nuxt Goes Zephyr-Native: The End of Deployment Scripts
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Nuxt Goes Zephyr-Native: The End of Deployment Scripts

7 min read

Nuxt apps now deploy as native Zephyr artifacts: build once, ship SSR or CSR automatically, and control releases at serve time.

Néstor López
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Nitro v3 + Zephyr: Backends Can Now Ship in One Step
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Nitro v3 + Zephyr: Backends Can Now Ship in One Step

7 min read

Nitro v3 beta adds a built-in Zephyr preset, which means backend teams can build and ship in one step while keeping their cloud options open.

Néstor López
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Next.js Without Lock‑In: vinext on Zephyr
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Next.js Without Lock‑In: vinext on Zephyr

9 min read

Cloudflare vinext and Zephyr Cloud unlock Next.js-style DX with Vite speed, edge-native deployment, and infrastructure portability.

Néstor López
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Stop Rebuilding Your App Just to Change an Environment Variable
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Stop Rebuilding Your App Just to Change an Environment Variable

5 min read

How Zephyr decouples your build artifacts from environment configuration, letting you promote the same version across environments without rebuilding

Shane Walker
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Why Enterprises Choose Module Federation
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Why Enterprises Choose Module Federation

25 min read

Native ES Modules and import maps promise a standards-based future for micro-frontends. But can they handle enterprise production requirements? We explore why Module Federation remains essential for real-world applications at scale.

Néstor López
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Keeping Our API Online During the AWS Outage
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Keeping Our API Online During the AWS Outage

10 min read

On the morning of October 20th, 2025, our monitoring alerts started firing. Our API was unreachable due to a massive AWS outage. This is the story of how we used Cloudflare Workers as an emergency proxy to route around a DNS failure and kept our API online during a major cloud provider outage.

Rodrigo
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Swiper, No Swiping! DORA Metrics to Catch Ghost Engineers
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Swiper, No Swiping! DORA Metrics to Catch Ghost Engineers

A founder we know paid $150K for six months of “work” and all he got were some Jira tickets.

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Generative Engine Optimization: A New Frontier in Content Visibility for AI-Driven Discovery Whitepaper
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Generative Engine Optimization: A New Frontier in Content Visibility for AI-Driven Discovery Whitepaper

As users increasingly turn to generative engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude for information discovery, traditional Search Engine Optimization (SEO) alone no longer guarantees content visibility.

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True Ventures Fellowship Project: AI Audit at Zephyr Cloud Whitepaper
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True Ventures Fellowship Project: AI Audit at Zephyr Cloud Whitepaper

As part of the True Ventures Fellowship, our team at Zephyr Cloud (Miles, Nitin, and James) conducted a detailed audit of our AI driven workflows.

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Latest Posts

Introducing "Serve Time": The Third Phase of Modern Application Delivery
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Introducing "Serve Time": The Third Phase of Modern Application Delivery

8 min read

For years, we've organized software delivery around build time and runtime. But as edge computing matured, a third phase emerged that deserves its own name: Serve Time.

Rodrigo
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Zephyr Cloud + AWS: A New Milestone for Bring Your Own Cloud
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Zephyr Cloud + AWS: A New Milestone for Bring Your Own Cloud

In today's fast-moving digital world, choosing the right cloud is about more than cost—it's about control, flexibility, and the freedom to innovate without being locked in. At Zephyr, we've always believed that your cloud strategy should be your strategy, not something dictated by vendors or technical limitations.

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My Neck, My Back, My Updates and My App
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My Neck, My Back, My Updates and My App

Deploy to anywhere. Update without quiting. With our new React Native Runtime SDK.

Lois Z.
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One Build. Many Clouds. Zero Headaches.
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One Build. Many Clouds. Zero Headaches.

5 min read

Multi-CDN deployments in Zephyr Cloud - push the same build to multiple cloud providers and domains in a single, seamless flow

Rodrigo
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Coding with Your Artificial Friends - It's a Vibe
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Coding with Your Artificial Friends - It's a Vibe

Leveraging AI, Nx, and Micro Frontends brought together with Zephyr Cloud to make a clone of the social media platform X.

Zack Chapple
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Three SDLC's, One Zephyr
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Three SDLC's, One Zephyr

In development today, teams follow a variety of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) approaches, each with their own strengths and challenges. As part of our launch week, we're exploring how Zephyr adapts to these different workflows while introducing an exciting concept: completely decoupling builds from the SDLC with our DevOps module.

Shane Walker
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Zephyr Cloud is Now SOC 2 Compliant
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Zephyr Cloud is Now SOC 2 Compliant

3 min read

Zephyr Cloud achieves SOC 2 compliance

Zack Chapple
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AI e2e testing with Midscene, Puppeteer, and Zephyr Cloud
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AI e2e testing with Midscene, Puppeteer, and Zephyr Cloud

6 min read

Exploring AI-powered end-to-end testing with Midscene and how it integrates with Zephyr Cloud deployments

Zack Chapple
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Who's your Cloud Daddy?
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Who's your Cloud Daddy?

In today's digital landscape, cloud providers are abundant, each offering unique capabilities and pricing models. Yet, choosing the wrong provider can be more than just a technical headache, it can become a costly strategic mistake.

Shane Walker
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The Team-first architecture
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The Team-first architecture

5 min read

The landscape of React Native development is evolving rapidly. As apps grow more complex and teams expand, traditional monolithic architectures often become a bottleneck for team productivity.

Néstor López
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Over the Air (OTA) updates with Zephyr
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Over the Air (OTA) updates with Zephyr

5 min read

Waiting for app store approvals to address critical bugs can be frustrating and time-consuming. By leveraging Zephyr Cloud you can do instant over-the-air updates to your users.

Rodrigo
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Case Study: Accelerating Deployment and Release Cycles at Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits with Zephyr Cloud
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Case Study: Accelerating Deployment and Release Cycles at Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits with Zephyr Cloud

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits reduced complex deployment timelines from weeks to near-instant sub-second releases for their React Native mobile applications using Module Federation with Re.Pack and Zephyr.

Zack Chapple
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npx create-zephyr-apps@latest
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npx create-zephyr-apps@latest

We simplified where you can find almost all our examples. Anyone can scaffold a federated cross-platform application with a single command.

Lois Z.
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Launch Week 2: Kickoff
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Launch Week 2: Kickoff

When we wrapped up our first launch week back in September 2024 it took only a few moments to realize that we loved the experience and wanted to do a second one. The theme: Mobile First.

Zack Chapple
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The Future of Infrastructure: Beyond Serverless
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The Future of Infrastructure: Beyond Serverless

Serverless computing has been hailed as a groundbreaking shift in web infrastructure. Yet, the term is somewhat misleading. What many of us hoped for was a genuinely 'infrastructureless' paradigm.

Zack Jackson
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