What stack do services like Netlify and Vercel use to implement their FaaS?

1 pointsjerng1y ago3 comments

I've been learning how to use (knative) and was just wondering what the market leaders in the FaaS space are doing on the backend.

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leerob1y ago· 2 in thread

(I work at Vercel) We are primarily built on AWS hardware and our own software.

For example, a custom CDN/proxy¹, build infrastructure², compute³, WAF⁴, etc. – and then take advantage of AWS' network/fiber (like AGA⁵) and their hardware.

¹: https://vercel.com/blog/life-of-a-vercel-request-what-happen...

²: https://vercel.com/blog/a-deep-dive-into-hive-vercels-builds...

³: https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-fluid-compute

⁴: https://vercel.com/blog/preventing-infrastructure-abuse-with...

⁵: https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/

jerngOP1y ago

Great : from your literature, Vercel's FaaS is basically AWS Lambda with plumbing.

Since Netlify appears to be a smaller player (40% of your revenue) and since they similarly don't talk about their stack much, I'm going to presume that they're doing the same thing hehe

jerngOP1y ago

thank you very much. i adore the industry, though I have spent only a limited time in it.

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