OpenEvidence Scales Medical Search for Doctors Using Vercel

What happened

OpenEvidence, a medical search platform, has scaled its services to support over 650,000 doctors. The platform, which allows physicians to access peer-reviewed medical evidence with citations, uses Vercel to manage web deployments and capacity as the product scaled.

The company achieved rapid deployment times, completing production deployments in about five minutes. It also handles traffic spikes without requiring additional capacity provisioning, ensuring reliable service during high-demand periods.

Why it matters

The ability to scale efficiently and handle traffic spikes is crucial for medical platforms, where reliability and speed can directly impact patient care. OpenEvidence's solution ensures that doctors can access critical evidence during care, whether they are in intensive care rounds or handling cases outside their specialty.

Key details

OpenEvidence reduced serverless costs by 90% using Fluid compute on Vercel. The company's serverless spend was reduced to less than 5% of the overall infrastructure budget after scaling up 1000x.

The engineering team relies on Vercel for web deployments and capacity management. The platform is built using Next.js for the physician-facing web application and supports multiple daily releases with rollback capabilities.