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A Comprehensive Guide to DNS and its Functionality In the digital landscape, we rarely access websites by directly using their IP addresses. Instead, we rely on domain names such as google.com or flaviocopes.com. This convenience allows website owners to switch servers and hosting providers while keeping the same domain name. The mechanism responsible for mapping these domain names to their corresponding IP addresses is known as the Domain Name System (DNS)....

When working on a Next.js-based website, you might encounter the need to fetch data from an API at build time. In this article, I’ll share a solution that works both in development (localhost) and in production (Vercel) environments. Let’s consider a scenario where we have a list of “members” and we want to download this data once, store it, and make it available across all pages. The list of members is relatively static and changes at most once a day....