Hacker News with Generative AI: Serverless Computing

AWS Lambda standardizes billing for INIT Phase (amazon.com)
Effective August 1, 2025, AWS will standardize billing for the initialization (INIT) phase across all AWS Lambda function configurations.
AWS, Cloud Computing, Billing, Software Development, Serverless Computing
7 points by miketheman 24 days ago | 1 comments
The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API Pricing (metacast.app)
On Friday, Feb 7, 2025 we had an incident with our Next.js web app hosted on Vercel that could've cost us $7,000 if we didn't notice it in time.
Cloud Hosting, Serverless Computing, Cost Optimization
112 points by navs 38 days ago | 119 comments
Arroyo (YC W23) has been acquired by Cloudflare (arroyo.dev)
Arroyo has been acquired by Cloudflare to bring serverless SQL stream processing to the Cloudflare Developer Platfrorm, integrated with Queues, Workers, and R2. The Arroyo Engine will remain open-source and self-hostable.
Cloud Computing, Acquisitions, Open Source, Serverless Computing
113 points by necubi 43 days ago | 38 comments
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing (firecracker-microvm.github.io)
Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services.
Serverless Computing, Virtualization, Security, Open Source, Cloud Computing
5 points by hunvreus 45 days ago | 0 comments
Remember FastCGI? (2021) (brokenco.de)
“Serverless” is sometimes referred to as “cgi-bin” which isn’t entirely fair as it’s somewhere between cgi-bin and FastCGI. Somewhere along the way both faded from memory. While goofing off last weekend wondered to myself: is FastCGI still useful?
Web Development, History, Serverless Computing
53 points by heavensteeth 45 days ago | 56 comments
Stelvio: Serverless AWS for Python Devs (github.com/michal-stlv)
Stelvio is a Python library that simplifies cloud infrastructure management and deployment.
Python, Serverless Computing, AWS, Cloud Infrastructure, Software
48 points by milsebg 64 days ago | 26 comments
Handling billions of invocations – best practices from AWS Lambda (amazon.com)
AWS Lambda is a highly scalable and resilient serverless compute service. With over 1.5 million monthly active customers and tens of trillions of invocations processed, scalability and reliability are two of the most important service tenets. This post provides recommendations and insights for implementing highly distributed applications based on the Lambda service team’s experience building its robust asynchronous event processing system. It dives into challenges you might face, solution techniques, and best practices for handling noisy neighbors.
Serverless Computing, AWS Lambda, Best Practices, Scalability, Reliability
15 points by mariuz 66 days ago | 0 comments
Laravel Cloud (laravel.cloud)
Deploy your Laravel applications without managing servers. One-click autoscaling, databases, caching, storage, and security.
Laravel, Cloud Hosting, Serverless Computing, Web Development, PHP
188 points by pier25 88 days ago | 111 comments
Ask HN: Are there any alternatives to Cloudflare Workers based outside the US? (ycombinator.com)
Inspired by the European Alternatives initiative: https://european-alternatives.eu/categories<p>My non-us based company wants to remain with our current provider, but we want to be realistic with the current political climate.<p>When it comes to edge workers, the only alternatives I can find are these:<p>Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute@Edge, Akamai EdgeWorkers<p>Are there other alternatives we're missing?
Cloud Computing, Geopolitics, Web Development, Serverless Computing
10 points by cupofjoakim 92 days ago | 2 comments
Vercel Fluid Compute (vercel.com)
The power of servers, in serverless form
Serverless Computing, Cloud Computing, Vercel
12 points by spking 96 days ago | 12 comments
Fluid Compute (vercel.com)
While dedicated servers provide efficiency and always-on availability, they often lead to over-provisioning, scaling challenges, and operational overhead. Serverless computing improves this with auto-scaling and pay-as-you-go pricing, but can suffer from cold starts and inefficient use of idle time.
Cloud Computing, Serverless Computing, Efficiency
10 points by mlejva 108 days ago | 2 comments
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 134 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 136 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 138 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 173 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 184 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 189 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 190 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 200 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 202 days ago | 0 comments
A brief history of our serverless future (thundergolfer.com)
Serverless Computing, Cloud Computing, History, Technology
8 points by pierremenard 205 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 218 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 225 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 228 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 247 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 248 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 263 days ago | 6 comments
We're Cutting L40S Prices in Half (fly.io)
Pricing, Cloud Computing, Serverless Computing, Web Hosting
59 points by LukeLambert 280 days ago | 30 comments
OpenServerless approved as new Apache project name (reddit.com)
Open Source, Serverless Computing
11 points by kenlo 346 days ago | 4 comments
Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models (apple.com)
Apple, AI, Machine Learning, Serverless Computing, Foundation Models
941 points by 2bit 347 days ago | 535 comments