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they don't run backend/databases though?

• danpalmer 5y ago
  This is likely fine for the typical "Digital Transformation" projects at huge enterprises that have a ton of cash to spend on things like this. Everything is a Mainframe or SAP installation under the hood somewhere, but layers and layers of API mean that product teams can mostly ignore the complexity and ship a mediocre app that is only really a frontend.
• icemelt8 5y ago
  Good point, for that there is another hot category of startups, such as Supabase and nhost.
• ratww 5y ago
  They do have Edge Functions, which is similar to Lambda. Same with Netlify and Cloudflare. For DBs you have to seek somewhere else. It's not really something that will run your Rails backend, but it has the potential of doing a lot for creative small teams.
  • ushakov 5y ago
    why would any sane person vendor-lock-in all backend code to a single provider?
    • deleted 5y ago
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    • addandsubtract 5y ago
      You don't. You write your backend code and vercel (and others) turn it into serverless functions that can be deployed on AWS or Cloudflare. Or whoever else decides to offer serverless functions. Or you extract your backend and host it yourself. You're not vendor locking yourself.
    • archeroed 5y ago
      Haven't yet used their /api serveless functions but I guess it's standard nodejs functions, so not that much vendor lockin
    • pritambarhate 5y ago
      You can deploy next.js application on any server which supports Node.js.
  • leerob 5y ago
    To clarify, we have Serverless Functions[1] which are similar to Lambda, as well as Edge Functions[2] which are similar to Cloudflare Workers. [1] https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/functions/serverless-functions https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/functions/serverless-functi... [2] https://vercel.com/edge https://vercel.com/edge
    • youngtaff 5y ago
      Where are your edge locations - doesn’t seem to be any information on your site…
• viginti_tres 5y ago
  AFAIK they're working on it