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I absolutely loved the name "Zeit", although I've read in this thread that it could have branding/SEO issues. I'm hoping Vercel will grow on me – right now, it sounds like a combination of "incel", "Verizon", and maybe some kind of geriatric medicine.
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I honestly don't understand this fetishization of "serverless" functions. It leads to so much vendor lock-in, tooling complexity, and straight-up lack of features.
You trade known deployment problems for unknown infra management problems. You reduce the complexity of contribution significantly. If you’re at a company that wants to manage K8s, and you’ve chosen to invest in that direction, then serverless doesn’t make a lot of sense. If your customers aren’t buying compute, then you should be wary of large investments that are outside your core focus. Sure, there are quite a few…
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I've recently had a simple requirement. To build a site with content gated behind a paywall. There's no way to have SSR'd gated content without paying a gazillion bucks to either netlify or next for role-based redirects. Even if I would go for CSR'd content for the gated part, I'd have to fiddle with JWT tokens. To handle users, I'd have to use a 3rd party service such as oauth, since zeit doesn't support users, and…
Don't. Just use a real backend. btw, Hasura can work with Google cloud run and heroku. Check it out. It's similar to strapi.
“We decided to retain our signature triangle logo, although we have simplified it.” Is this satire? Can’t tell.
Same with this: > Vercel strongly connects to the words versatile, accelerate, and excel. It also "strongly connects" to the words "vermin" and "decelerate".
Vercel CEO here. We are incredibly delighted to bring the new brand to the world and share the news of our funding. For everyone who's been on this journey with us so far, thank you, and we look forward to a lot more!
How will the investors recoup their investment? What are Vercel users going to give up to please your new overlords?
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Main difference with Vercel / ZEIT is that unlike Netlify, it can more easily have SSR pages. So like if you're using NextJS for instance, on Netlify you can only really use the static site generation features of NextJS, whereas with Vercel you have SSR pages as well as the API functions. Also Vercel _can_ do full standard servers if needed, including for NodeJS https://vercel.com/docs/runtimes#advanced-usage/advance…
But Netlify also has cloud functions, no?
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I honestly don't understand this fetishization of "serverless" functions. It leads to so much vendor lock-in, tooling complexity, and straight-up lack of features.
I think there are legitimate use cases. E.g., I needed to help somebody with a little glue between Twilio and a SaaS tool. It was really nice to take a couple of functions, turn them into endpoints, and know that Amazon was going to worry about keeping them always available. I agree it's so far wildly overblown, but I get that too. A lot of people are scared by ops, and "serverless" promises they don't have to think…
Vercel CEO here. We are incredibly delighted to bring the new brand to the world and share the news of our funding. For everyone who's been on this journey with us so far, thank you, and we look forward to a lot more!
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It's not just JavaScript with that issue... https://0.30000000000000004.com/
Not if you use decimal type that is not available in JavaScript.