Hacker News with Generative AI: Serverless Computing

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 11 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 16 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 18 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 18 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 37 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 38 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 61 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/categoriesMy non-us based company wants to remain with our current provider, but we want to be realistic with the current political climate.When it comes to edge workers, the only alternatives I can find are these:Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute@Edge, Akamai EdgeWorkersAre there other alternatives we're missing?

Cloud Computing, Geopolitics, Web Development, Serverless Computing

10 points by cupofjoakim 65 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 69 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 80 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 107 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 109 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 111 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 146 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 157 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 162 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 163 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 172 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 175 days ago | 0 comments

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

Serverless Computing, Cloud Computing, History, Technology

8 points by pierremenard 178 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 190 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 198 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 201 days ago | 31 comments

Launch HN: Cerebrium (YC W22) – Serverless Infrastructure Platform for ML/AI (ycombinator.com)
Hi HN,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 220 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 220 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 236 days ago | 6 comments

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

Pricing, Cloud Computing, Serverless Computing, Web Hosting

59 points by LukeLambert 253 days ago | 30 comments

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