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Notes from the Zephyr team.
Insights, updates, and tutorials on shipping frontends with Zephyr Cloud.
27 posts
Featured
Micro Frontends · Module Federation · Deployment
Build-time checks aren’t enough
A remote can build, pass its checks, and still fail next to a particular host and set of remotes. Check the combination users will actually run, in production, before ordinary traffic moves.
Zack Chapple · · 6 min read
Announcement · AI · DX
Zephyr Skills Turn Repetition Into Infrastructure
Zephyr Skills package setup, deployment, and Module Federation knowledge into portable agent skills teams can reuse across Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, Codex, and more.
Arthur Fiorette · · 5 min read
Latest posts
Micro Frontends · Architecture
The Micro-Frontend Canvas: a practical tool for better boundaries
The Micro-Frontend Canvas is a structured one-page tool that helps teams design boundaries before they become code problems — and audit existing micro-frontends when friction shows up.
Luca Mezzalira · · 9 min read
Announcement · Deployment
Nuxt Is Now Native on Zephyr
Nuxt now deploys on Zephyr as a first-class release artifact, with immutable versions, preview URLs, environment controls, and rollback built in.
Néstor López · · 4 min read
Announcement · Deployment
Nitro v3 + Zephyr: Backends Can Now Ship in One Step
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 · · 7 min read
Architecture · Edge
Next.js Without Lock‑In: vinext on Zephyr
Cloudflare vinext and Zephyr Cloud unlock Next.js-style DX with Vite speed, edge-native deployment, and infrastructure portability.
Néstor López · · 9 min read
Engineering · DX
Stop Rebuilding Your App Just to Change an Environment Variable
How Zephyr decouples your build artifacts from environment configuration, letting you promote the same version across environments without rebuilding
Shane Walker · · 5 min read
Architecture · Module Federation
Why Enterprises Choose Module Federation
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 · · 25 min read
Cloud · Incident Response
Keeping Our API Online During the AWS Outage
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 · · 10 min read
Architecture · Web
Introducing "Serve Time": The Third Phase of Modern Application Delivery
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 · · 8 min read
Case Study · Ops
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.
AI · Web
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.
AI · Web
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.
Cloud · Announcement
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.
Launch Week · Mobile
My Neck, My Back, My Updates and My App
Deploy to anywhere. Update without quiting. With our new React Native Runtime SDK.
Lois Z. · 
Cloud · DevOps
One Build. Many Clouds. Zero Headaches.
Multi-CDN deployments in Zephyr Cloud - push the same build to multiple cloud providers and domains in a single, seamless flow
Rodrigo · · 5 min read
Launch Week · AI
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 · 
Launch Week · Deployment
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 · 
Announcement · Cloud
Zephyr Cloud is Now SOC 2 Compliant
Zephyr Cloud achieves SOC 2 compliance
Zack Chapple · · 3 min read
AI · Tutorial
AI e2e testing with Midscene, Puppeteer, and Zephyr Cloud
Exploring AI-powered end-to-end testing with Midscene and how it integrates with Zephyr Cloud deployments
Zack Chapple · · 6 min read
Polycloud · Deployment
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 · 
Architecture · Mobile
The Team-first architecture
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 · · 5 min read
Mobile · React Native
Over the Air (OTA) updates with Zephyr
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 · · 5 min read
Deployment · Case Study
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 · 
Engineering · Product
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. · 
Product · Mobile
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 · 
Engineering · Architecture
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 ·