Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A

Re:Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A by dfee on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @11:06AM (#22935541)

You trade known deployment problems for unknown infra management problems. You reduce the complexity of contribution significantly.

If you’re at a company that wants to manage K8s, and you’ve chosen to invest in that direction, then serverless doesn’t make a lot of sense.

If your customers aren’t buying compute, then you should be wary of large investments that are outside your core focus.

Sure, there are quite a few problems with lambdas. But the abstraction you’re working at is much more atomic. And you don’t need FTEs to manage K8s and introduce a completely new set of problems.

Less is more (is the argument).

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Re:Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A by manigandham on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @12:02PM (#22936149)

You don't need serverless/FaaS for that. PaaS has existed for a long time, and many providers will now let you run any container image which is a lot more portable than custom frameworks. Zeit v1 actually did this.

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