Hacker News with Generative AI: Serverless

Show HN: Dispatched.dev – Background Job Queues for Your Serverless Apps (dispatched.dev)
Stop managing queues and workers. Focus on building your app while we handle your background jobs with simple HTTP requests.
PR Previews Don't Need Vercel: My Solution on a $5 VPS (pert.dev)
Let's preface this by admitting that the title is a little farcical - the fact that Vercel and other similar sites give you preview domains out of the box with no setup is a lovely feature. This blog is purely to show you that it's actually possible to configure these yourself, and furthermore, it's way easier than you might think!
Serverless VPN Self-hosted (serverlessvpn.com)
Create your own WireGuard® VPN servers with a single click in over 49 locations using your own cloud accounts on AWS Lightsail, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Akamai Linode, and Vultr. Pay once, download, and install on your own server, then use it forever.
Amazon Aurora DSQL (amazon.com)
Amazon Aurora DSQL is a serverless distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management.
Static IPs for Serverless Containers (modal.com)
At Modal, we built a high-availability, Go-based VPN proxy called vprox.
Unstructured Serverless API (unstructured.io)
This page describes how to get started with the Unstructured Serverless API. Learn how to obtain an API key to use with the Unstructured Serverless API, and get started in no time.
I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either (benhouston3d.com)
Kubernetes often represents the ultimate solution for container orchestration, but my experience has led me to leave it behind in favor of a simpler, cost-effective solution using Google Cloud Run. This transition has made my infrastructure projects easier to manage, more scalable, and significantly cheaper. Here’s why I made this choice and how Cloud Run offers a better fit for my needs going forward.
Puter.js – Serverless Auth, Cloud, and AI. Forever Free for Developers (puter.com)
Puter.js provides authentication, cloud storage, database, GPT-4o, Sonnet 3.5, DALL-E 3, and more,all through a single JavaScript library. No backend. No servers. No configuration.
Rust for AWS Lambda, the Docker Way (beeb.li)
Rust is a great language to consider when writing services for AWS Lambda, because of its extremely low start-up time, CPU usage and memory footprint.
ServerlessWP: Host WordPress Sites on Vercel, Netlify, or AWS Lambda (github.com/mitchmac)
Host WordPress sites on Vercel, Netlify, or AWS Lambda
Show HN: Self-Host Next.js in Production (github.com/opennextjs)
OpenNext takes the Next.js build output and converts it into packages that can be deployed across a variety of environments. Natively OpenNext has support for AWS Lambda, and classic Node.js Server.
Spin 3.0 – open-source tooling for building and running WASM apps (fermyon.com)
The Spin community is proud to introduce Spin 3.0 — the latest major release of Spin, the open source developer tool for building, distributing, and running serverless WebAssembly (or Wasm) applications everywhere.
SST: Container Support (sst.dev)
Historically, SST has primarily supported deploying serverless applications. But over the last month we’ve slowly expanded native support for containers on AWS.
Show HN: Modus, serverless framework for intelligent APIs powered by WebAssembly (github.com/hypermodeinc)
Modus is an open-source, serverless framework for building APIs powered by WebAssembly. It simplifies integrating AI models, data, and business logic with sandboxed execution. And, it's really fast.
Show HN: Rust based AWS Lambda Logs Viewer (TUI) (github.com/resola-ai)
A terminal-based user interface (TUI) application for viewing AWS Lambda function logs across multiple profiles and regions.
Puter.js (puter.com)
Puter.js provides auth, cloud storage, database, GPT-4o, Sonnet 3.5, DALL-E 3, and more, all through a single JavaScript library. No backend. No servers. No configuration.
Retrieval powered by object storage: AMA (ycombinator.com)
Chroma now has a fully-distributed and serverless version backed by object-storage (also Apache 2.0).
Show HN: Run a Rust HTTP Server in AWS Lambda (Axum+Scaffoldly) (github.com/scaffoldly)
Scaffoldly allows you to run any HTTP server inside AWS Lambda.
Scalable Server SQLite Apps (servicestack.net)
Ever since adding support for Litestream in our project's templates GitHub Action Deployments we've been using SQLite as the backend for our new .NET C# Apps as it's the most cost-effective option that frees us from needing to use a cloud managed database which lets us make use of Hetzner's much cheaper US Cloud VMs.
Ask HN: Azure Ran Out of Capacity? (ycombinator.com)
We tried provisioning a database in US EAST. We were denied. We submitted a support request. We were told they could not provision the database due to high demand in that region (what??). We pivoted to US EAST 2 and am now getting blocked trying to deploy an App Service.
Build a serverless ACID database with this one neat trick (atomic PutIfAbsent) (eatonphil.com)
Delta Lake is an open protocol for serverless ACID databases. Due to its simplicity, scalability, and the number of open-source implementations, it's quickly becoming the DuckDB of serverless transactional databases. Iceberg is a contender too, and is similar in many ways. But since Delta Lake is simpler (simple != better) that's where we'll focus in this post.
Show HN: Deploy Next.js Apps to AWS Lambda (scaffoldly.dev)
In this guide, we'll go through the steps to deploy a new Next.js application to AWS Lambda using the scaffoldly CLI. You'll have a fully functional, serverless Next.js app running on AWS in no time!
Show HN: Oodle – serverless, fully-managed, drop-in replacement for Prometheus (oodle.ai)
In today’s world, observability is essential for any company to understand how their systems are performing.
Saving $10k/Month on Analytics – Snowplow Serverless Alternative (agondata.com)
Faced with the high costs of traditional analytics solutions, our team implemented a serverless Snowplow alternative to dramatically reduce costs. By leveraging cloud-native technologies and serverless architectures, we not only achieved significant cost savings but also gained a scalable, flexible analytics platform with full data ownership.
Serverless Prometheus Playground: 13M+ time-series/hr and 13B+ samples/day (oodle.ai)
AWS AI Stack – Ready-to-Deploy Serverless AI App on AWS and Bedrock (github.com/serverless)
AWS AI Stack – A ready-to-use, full-stack boilerplate project for building serverless AI applications on AWS. A great fit for those seeking a trusted AWS foundation for AI apps and access to powerful LLM models via Bedrock ​​that keep your app’s data separate from model providers.
Show HN: Clace – Application Server with support for scaling down to zero (github.com/claceio)
Clace is an Apache-2.0 licensed project building a web app development and deployment platform for internal tools.
Show HN: Browserbased (Serverless Headless Browsers) (github.com/yevbar)
Open-source serverless headless browsers
Serverless-registry: A Docker registry backed by Workers and R2 (github.com/cloudflare)
This repository contains a container registry implementation in Workers that uses R2.
Set Up a $4/Mo Hetzner VM to Skip the Serverless Tax (shipixen.com)