Key Takeaways
- Potential technical breakthrough.
- On Vercel Blog's 1,000+ package monorepo, turbo run now feels instant.
- Time to First Task is now 11x faster.After testing the changes with some open source Turborepos and asking Vercel customers to try canary releases on their repositories, The author found the…
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Context
On Vercel Blog's 1,000+ package monorepo, turbo run now feels instant. Time to First Task is now 11x faster.After testing the changes with some open source Turborepos and asking Vercel customers to try canary releases on their repositories, The author found the performance improvement could get as high as 96% depending on the size and complexity of the repository.The process behind earning these performance gains is worth sharing, because it wasn't one optimization or one technique. It was eight days of mixing AI agents, Vercel Sandboxes, and typical, boring engineering practices.How Turborepo schedules your tasksEvery turbo run starts by analyzing your monorepo's structure, scripts, and dependencies to build a task graph. That graph determines execution order, creates parallelism, and powers caching so you never repeat the same work twice.Building the task graph is overhead you pay before your repository's work begins. The larger the repo, the higher the cost. On Vercel Blog's 1,000-package monorepo, that cost was around 10 seconds on an M4 Pro Max. The author don't know about you, but The author found that unacceptable.Starting with unattended agentsI wanted to see what agents…
For builders
On Vercel Blog's 1,000+ package monorepo, turbo run now feels instant.
For Builders
On Vercel Blog's 1,000+ package monorepo, turbo run now feels instant.