How Factory scaled its cloud backend to one billion monthly requests on Vercel
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Summary
Factory scaled its cloud backend to one billion monthly requests on Vercel, serving that volume daily with a 350ms p95 response time, without a dedicated infrastructure team.
Key facts
- Factory runs one billion backend API requests daily on Vercel.
- Factory reports a 350ms p95 response time.
- Factory scaled backend, internal tooling and security without a dedicated infrastructure team.
- The Vercel post is dated 2026-08-03.
Why it matters
Teams building backend services can point to Factory's reported scale and latency as evidence that a managed platform can carry high request volume without a dedicated infrastructure team.
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- VercelOfficial · PrimaryHow Factory scaled its cloud backend to one billion monthly requests on Vercel · By Susan AzizRead at Vercel