Hacker News with Generative AI: Serverless Computing

Why aren't we all serverless yet? (varoa.net)
The median product engineer should reason about applications as composites of high-level, functional Lego blocks where technical low-level details are invisible.

Serverless Computing, Software Engineering, Cloud Computing

48 points by srvaroa 9 days ago | 133 comments

Why we built Vade Studio in Clojure (vadelabs.com)
A server crash during a Valentine's date became the turning point. The pursuit of technical complexity was costing more than just code - it was costing life itself. This is a story of how three developers built an ambitious no-code platform using Clojure.

Programming, Clojure, Software Development, Serverless Computing, No-Code Platforms

163 points by puredanger 11 days ago | 142 comments

Being Functionless: How to Develop a Serverless Mindset to Write Less Code (infoq.com)
Building applications with serverless technology is not all about implementing functions for every purpose.

Serverless Computing, Software Development, Programming, Cloud Computing

5 points by gemanor 13 days ago | 1 comments

My notes from deciding against AWS Lambda (jesseduffield.com)
At the start of the year I did a deep dive on AWS lambda to know whether it was worth using in a new codebase for a web app. These are the notes I wrote before making the decision against lambda, and I hope they can help somebody else with the same dilemma.

Cloud Computing, Serverless Computing, Web Development, Decision Making

13 points by SpookyChoice 48 days ago | 7 comments

AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it (allthingsdistributed.com)
SEATTLE – (Nov XX, 2014) – Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the introduction of AWS Lambda, the simplest way to run code in the cloud.

AWS, Cloud Computing, Serverless Computing, History, Amazon

4 points by danielklnstn 59 days ago | 0 comments

AWS Lambda PR/FAQ After 10 Years (allthingsdistributed.com)
SEATTLE – (Nov XX, 2014) – Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the introduction of AWS Lambda, the simplest way to run code in the cloud.

AWS, Cloud Computing, Serverless Computing

25 points by mlhpdx 64 days ago | 12 comments

AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it (allthingsdistributed.com)
SEATTLE – (Nov XX, 2014) – Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the introduction of AWS Lambda, the simplest way to run code in the cloud.

Cloud Computing, Serverless Computing, History

15 points by riv991 65 days ago | 0 comments

Serverless Use Cases at Startups (sgringwe.com)
Recently, as the serverless hype seems to be calming down a bit and stabilizing, I’ve been more and more interested in what it can offer to mid-size startups.

Serverless Computing, Startups, Cloud Computing

7 points by tslmy 74 days ago | 1 comments

Why doesn't Cloudflare use containers in their infrastructure? (shivangsnewsletter.com)
Cloudflare enables its customers to run serverless code at the edge globally at blazing speeds with almost zero cold startup time.

Cloud Computing, Serverless Computing, Infrastructure, Cloudflare

18 points by thunderbong 77 days ago | 0 comments

A brief history of our serverless future (thundergolfer.com)

Serverless Computing, Cloud Computing, History, Technology

8 points by pierremenard 80 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Why is there not more concern about the physical security of Cloudflare? (ycombinator.com)
Using Hetzner and Azure, we trust that our unencrypted in-memory data and business logic are housed in professional data centers with strong physical security measures. However, Cloudflare has built its Workers and serverless offerings on top of its Cache/CDN and anti-DDoS infrastructure, which operates out of questionable ISP and IXP colocation facilities in various jurisdictions with dubious standards.

Cloud Security, Serverless Computing, Data Security, Physical Security

90 points by dtquad 92 days ago | 54 comments

Nixiesearch: Running Lucene over S3, and why we're building a new search engine (nixiesearch.substack.com)
A new search engine in 2024? Yes, but stateless — index on S3, serverless — no cluster state, with all Lucene features — filters, autocomplete, facets. And also with local embedding & RAG inference.

Search Engines, Cloud Computing, Lucene, Serverless Computing, Open Source

128 points by shutty 100 days ago | 76 comments

Show HN: ServerlessAI – Build, scale, and monetize AI apps without back end (serverlessai.dev)
ServerlessAI provides an OpenAI-compatible API safe for client-side use.

Serverless Computing, OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Web Development

86 points by HeavenFox 103 days ago | 31 comments

Launch HN: Cerebrium (YC W22) – Serverless Infrastructure Platform for ML/AI (ycombinator.com)
Hi HN,<p>We are Michael & Jono, and we are building Cerebrium (https://www.cerebrium.ai), a serverless infrastructure platform for ML/AI applications - we make it easy for engineers to build, deploy and scale AI applications.

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Serverless Computing, Cloud Computing, Startups

48 points by za_mike157 122 days ago | 32 comments

Show HN: Open-source deployment tool for AWS Lambda (launchflow.com)
Deploy a serverless API on AWS Lambda with LaunchFlow.

Open-source, Deployment Tools, AWS Lambda, Serverless Computing

3 points by calebtv 122 days ago | 0 comments

How to Deploy Node.js to AWS Lambda with OpenTofu and GitHub Actions (developer-friendly.blog)

Node.js, AWS Lambda, Serverless Computing, DevOps, GitHub Actions

9 points by meysamazad 138 days ago | 6 comments

We're Cutting L40S Prices in Half (fly.io)

Pricing, Cloud Computing, Serverless Computing, Web Hosting

59 points by LukeLambert 155 days ago | 30 comments

OpenServerless approved as new Apache project name (reddit.com)