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Re:Vercel raises $150M Series D by ratww on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @09:58AM (#29318522)
They do have Edge Functions, which is similar to Lambda. Same with Netlify and Cloudflare. For DBs you have to seek somewhere else.

It's not really something that will run your Rails backend, but it has the potential of doing a lot for creative small teams.

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Re:Vercel raises $150M Series D by leerob on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:28AM (#29318913)
To clarify, we have Serverless Functions[1] which are similar to Lambda, as well as Edge Functions[2] which are similar to Cloudflare Workers.

[1] https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/functions/serverless-functi...

[2] https://vercel.com/edge

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Re:Vercel raises $150M Series D by youngtaff on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @03:24PM (#29322938)
Where are your edge locations - doesn’t seem to be any information on your site…
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Re:Vercel raises $150M Series D by ushakov on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:01AM (#29318569)
why would any sane person vendor-lock-in all backend code to a single provider?
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Re:Vercel raises $150M Series D by addandsubtract on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:17AM (#29318765)
You don't. You write your backend code and vercel (and others) turn it into serverless functions that can be deployed on AWS or Cloudflare. Or whoever else decides to offer serverless functions. Or you extract your backend and host it yourself. You're not vendor locking yourself.
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Re:Vercel raises $150M Series D by archeroed on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:19AM (#29318790)
Haven't yet used their /api serveless functions but I guess it's standard nodejs functions, so not that much vendor lockin
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Re:Vercel raises $150M Series D by pritambarhate on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @02:07PM (#29321855)
You can deploy next.js application on any server which supports Node.js.
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