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Could you talk more about your experience mentioned in [1]? That’s super material in terms of improvement.

• tomlin 6y ago
  He's an employee of Versel. I'm sure he'll have all kinds of "experiences"
  • ketamine__ 6y ago
    Is he?
    • texasbigdata 6y ago
      Based on his HN linked Twitter and his LinkedIn from googling his name, that does not appear to be the case at all. Not sure why someone would lob an accusation like that.
      • leerob 6y ago
        He's not an employee, but a customer of Vercel.
      • tomlin 6y ago
        Because it's verifiably true, all you have to do is know it in your heart.
        • seveibar 6y ago
          You are 100% incorrect. I have only been a customer and never an employee or paid in any way by vercel.
    • tomlin 6y ago
      No. This is called sarcasm.
• seveibar 6y ago
  It's from a bygone era when Vercel would charge for serverless invocations. I think it still might be possible to run into the problem in overage so I can describe it a bit. Basically I was polling an API endpoint on our SPA client. Maybe one hit every second. We were getting over 10,000 (non-signup) users a day, so it ended up being a lot of requests. Our functions were configured with the default amount of RAM and CPU allocation. When I saw the bill shoot up, I reduced the rate of polling and adjusted the serverless functions to have a lower amount of RAM. This got the price down to $50/mo. Later, Vercel would make pricing per developer seat so the price dropped even more. The traffic dropped to more reasonable levels after that. But it was a very good week and the traffic remained nominally 2x-5x. I'm sure google's algorithm played some part in the traffic spike. (also, I am not an employee of Vercel, just a customer :)