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What Does Vercel Do?

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Re: What Does Vercel Do?

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Post by vnphanquang »

jbc1 wrote: post #6

With the exception of a Postgres offering (they went with SQLite) and what sounds like some sort of built in CMS, Cloudflare has all of this. I don't mean in a glue together your own Dropbox way but in a nicely integrated verify your GitHub profile, pick a repo, get automatic deployment and serverless functions that just work way. The same way Vercel is being described. My understanding is that Vercel is built on top…

Vercel is great, the setup is easy and overall dev workflow is very nice. And maybe the best thing about Vercel is its dev team is very active in terms of pushing features and reaching the public.

However, I agree with what you said that it does "charge a significant premium". I've switched to cloudflare for a recent project and been happy with it. Right now for me, if it's work-related and company has the resources and finance, go with vercel. For personal projects & freelancer work, stick to cloudflare.

Re: What Does Vercel Do?

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Post by ctvo »

What does Vercel do? It takes the engineer's code and puts it on Lambdas and CDNs! Why can't the engineers take the code and put it there themselves? Look I already told you! What the hell is wrong with you people?! They don't have deployment skills! Vercel has deployment skills!

Re: What Does Vercel Do?

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Post by aigoochamna »

I used to use a custom build script to do deploys (scp a binary onto a monolith server, execute a script; systemd restart www.service, etc). Worked fine for years. It would continue working fine, too.

I moved to Vercel and adopted a fairly serverless approach and leverage edge functions and edge caching where ever possible. It has been wonderful and I don't see myself ever going back to doing things myself. Sure, I could spin up some AWS services and figure it all out myself, but the freedom Vercel has given me has been worth the added cost. As a solo founder it has been amazing.

No more worrying about security, access control, updates, or anything other than my own product and features. I don't care how it works. I don't want to know. I just want to continue improving my product.

Re: What Does Vercel Do?

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Post by fyzix »

jbc1 wrote: post #6

With the exception of a Postgres offering (they went with SQLite) and what sounds like some sort of built in CMS, Cloudflare has all of this. I don't mean in a glue together your own Dropbox way but in a nicely integrated verify your GitHub profile, pick a repo, get automatic deployment and serverless functions that just work way. The same way Vercel is being described. My understanding is that Vercel is built on top…

Vercel edge runtime is built on cf workers and blob is a wrapper around R2

Postgres is a wrapper around neon and kv is a wrapper around upstash

Everything else is aws

Re: What Does Vercel Do?

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Post by canadianfella »

ctvo wrote: post #12

What does Vercel do? It takes the engineer's code and puts it on Lambdas and CDNs! Why can't the engineers take the code and put it there themselves? Look I already told you! What the hell is wrong with you people?! They don't have deployment skills! Vercel has deployment skills!

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Re: What Does Vercel Do?

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Post by thelastparadise »

ctvo wrote: post #12

What does Vercel do? It takes the engineer's code and puts it on Lambdas and CDNs! Why can't the engineers take the code and put it there themselves? Look I already told you! What the hell is wrong with you people?! They don't have deployment skills! Vercel has deployment skills!

(face turning bright red)

"I'm a people person g-d d$%& it!!"

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