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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 t
by 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 agowhy would any sane person vendor-lock-in all backend code to a single provider?
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- addandsubtract 5y agoYou 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 agoHaven't yet used their /api serveless functions but I guess it's standard nodejs functions, so not that much vendor lockin
- pritambarhate 5y agoYou can deploy next.js application on any server which supports Node.js.
- leerob 5y agoTo 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 agoWhere are your edge locations - doesn’t seem to be any information on your site…