Case Study: Vercel achieves reduced dependency sprawl and improved OSS hygiene with Socket

Vercel Optimizes Open Source Dependency Management with Socket Reduced Sprawl, Improved Hygiene, and Faster Decision-Making

The customer, Vercel, a platform for building and delivering web applications, faced significant challenges with open source dependency sprawl and maintenance headaches within its large monorepo. Their previous GitHub tooling was noisy and cumbersome, slowing down developers and failing to provide the necessary insights into overlapping dependencies and package reliability.

The vendor, Socket, provided a solution that seamlessly integrated into Vercel's workflows. Socket reduced dependency sprawl, improved hygiene, and offered comprehensive package scorecards, which drastically cut down on manual analysis. This enabled Vercel's developers to self-remediate issues and make faster decisions, allowing them to build and ship software more efficiently.

Vercel

Aaron Brown

Head of Security