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Panchitous

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Panchitous··on Next.js 15.1 is unusable outside of Vercel
It’s opinionated, and they’ve been pushing streaming—just like the React team—right? Yes. Is it unusable outside of Vercel? No.

As far as I know, Next works without hiccups if you deploy to containers. However, that’s not our case, as we use Lambdas on AWS. We’ve been using OpenNext since the early versions. I must add that I’ve followed a lot of libraries on Discord, and among all those I’ve joined (PayloadCMS coming second), there’s none as helpful, friendly, and open to discussing issues as OpenNext.

We serve millions of pages per day at TelevisaUnivision, and we have nearly 5 million pages indexed on Google. Since migrating to RSC nearly three years ago (we started with the betas), we now pay only 10% of what we previously did on AWS, and we’ve transformed almost all of our poor-performing pages into fast ones in Google Search Console. We cache significantly more now and don’t follow the typical caching conventions of Next/OpenNext—we use ElastiCache with Redis. Nonetheless, the framework and library have enabled us to do this and even allowed us to use a different CDN (currently Fastly, previously Akamai).

We trigger our deployments from GitHub Actions using SST. It’s opinionated, and one of the individuals behind it isn’t the friendliest, but it works—so I respect it for that.