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We're using the funding to: - Support open-source projects - Make the Web Edge-first - Build the end-to-end development platform - Grow our team Happy to d

by leerob 5y ago

We're using the funding to: - Support open-source projects - Make the Web Edge-first - Build the end-to-end development platform - Grow our team Happy to dive further into any of these. We did raise our Series C in June: https://vercel.com/blog/series-c-102m-continue-building-the-next-web https://vercel.com/blog/series-c-102m-continue-building-the-....

terpimost 5y ago
Vercel is great! Any plans to have some kind of DB or object storage?
- leerob 5y ago
  :)
outside1234 5y ago
What do you mean by edge first?
- leerob 5y ago
  We believe the future of the frontend is "at the edge"[1], meaning it's as close to your customers as physically possible. The only way to beat the speed of light is to be closer[2]. Frameworks and tooling should be designed with this constraint from the start[3]. [1] https://vercel.com/edge https://vercel.com/edge [2] https://rauchg.com/2014/7-principles-of-rich-web-applications#pre-rendered-pages-are-not-optional https://rauchg.com/2014/7-principles-of-rich-web-application... [3] https://vercel.com/features/infrastructure https://vercel.com/features/infrastructure
  - machiaweliczny 5y ago
    My out of ass opinion. This edge stuff could be nice if only there was some good DB that utilised this model. Then we could have simple to write/work web apps competitive with mobile (if only Safari supported preload)
    - siquick 5y ago
      Planet Scale is probably the closest to what you're describing here. https://planetscale.com/ https://planetscale.com/
- itwy 5y ago
  They gave CDN a new name to milk venture capitalists.
  - leerob 5y ago
    To me, the difference between a CDN and an Edge Network is that the former is for hosting static assets, where as the latter is for both storage _and_ code execution.
    - youngtaff 5y ago
      The three major CDNs (Akamai, Cloudflare and Fastly) all support code execution at the edge, and all have (or will have) storage at the edge too There's also a real question of whether Vercel and Netlify are really at the edge when they’re mainly running in AWS, GCP etc data centers rather than deploying their own hardware at edge locations, ISPs etc. Don't get me wrong I think Vercel and Netlify are interesting but they seem to talk about being ‘on the edge’ while they really aren’t ATM
      - joshxyz 5y ago
        Shhh the vcs might hear ya haha
no_wizard 5y ago
Why did you jump the question above this asking for concrete numbers on open source support? I’m interested in this as well
- leerob 5y ago
  I answered :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29318420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29318420
  - no_wizard 5y ago
    As noted in reply to that comment you skipped the part that is really the meat of the question.
    - leerob 5y ago
      We do direct donations to open source projects through OpenCollective, GitHub Sponsors, and more. Sorry that wasn't more clear!
halfmatthalfcat 5y ago
How can you possibly make the entire Web edge first? Would a precondition not be to capture all of the web traffic through Vercel first?

by leerob 5y ago

terpimost 5y ago

Vercel is great! Any plans to have some kind of DB or object storage?

leerob 5y ago
:)

outside1234 5y ago

What do you mean by edge first?

leerob 5y ago
We believe the future of the frontend is "at the edge"[1], meaning it's as close to your customers as physically possible. The only way to beat the speed of light is to be closer[2]. Frameworks and tooling should be designed with this constraint from the start[3]. [1] https://vercel.com/edge https://vercel.com/edge [2] https://rauchg.com/2014/7-principles-of-rich-web-applications#pre-rendered-pages-are-not-optional https://rauchg.com/2014/7-principles-of-rich-web-application... [3] https://vercel.com/features/infrastructure https://vercel.com/features/infrastructure
- machiaweliczny 5y ago
  My out of ass opinion. This edge stuff could be nice if only there was some good DB that utilised this model. Then we could have simple to write/work web apps competitive with mobile (if only Safari supported preload)
  - siquick 5y ago
    Planet Scale is probably the closest to what you're describing here. https://planetscale.com/ https://planetscale.com/
itwy 5y ago
They gave CDN a new name to milk venture capitalists.
- leerob 5y ago
  To me, the difference between a CDN and an Edge Network is that the former is for hosting static assets, where as the latter is for both storage _and_ code execution.
  - youngtaff 5y ago
    The three major CDNs (Akamai, Cloudflare and Fastly) all support code execution at the edge, and all have (or will have) storage at the edge too There's also a real question of whether Vercel and Netlify are really at the edge when they’re mainly running in AWS, GCP etc data centers rather than deploying their own hardware at edge locations, ISPs etc. Don't get me wrong I think Vercel and Netlify are interesting but they seem to talk about being ‘on the edge’ while they really aren’t ATM
    - joshxyz 5y ago
      Shhh the vcs might hear ya haha

no_wizard 5y ago

Why did you jump the question above this asking for concrete numbers on open source support? I’m interested in this as well

leerob 5y ago
I answered :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29318420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29318420
- no_wizard 5y ago
  As noted in reply to that comment you skipped the part that is really the meat of the question.
  - leerob 5y ago
    We do direct donations to open source projects through OpenCollective, GitHub Sponsors, and more. Sorry that wasn't more clear!

halfmatthalfcat 5y ago

How can you possibly make the entire Web edge first? Would a precondition not be to capture all of the web traffic through Vercel first?