AWS Lambda Announces Tiered Pricing — As of the August 1st billing cycle, there is now tiered pricing for Lambda based on monthly compute usage in gigabytes/second. Great if you use Lambda a lot, but less interesting if you're a light user. This blog post has a few examples of how the new tiered structure plays out in practice (with intimidating 6 digital totals on display) but we've included the pricing above for reference.

Heeki Park (AWS)

Stop Managing Infra. Start Building Serverless — CockroachDB serverless was created by developers who dislike managing servers *for* developers who dislike managing servers. Because babysitting your database when you could be coding is nobody’s idea of a good time.

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qStash: A Messaging and Scheduling Service for Serverless Runtimes — Upstash is best known for its serverless Redis (and Kafka) platforms, but they’ve now added a layer on top to act, as they say, as “glue for your serverless functions.” Compared to SQS it’s quite expensive but is truly pay-as-you-go, and there’s a cap.

Upstash

How Cloudflare Emerged to Take on AWS, Azure, and GCP — This internet security and edge infrastructure company has “reinvented itself to challenge the hyperscale cloud providers”. Scott asks "can it succeed?" but we think it already has!

Scott Carey

Grafbase: Instant Serverless GraphQL Backends — A new edge-native data platform for shipping backends, combining GraphQL, serverless, and Edge Computing. Currently in private beta. Lets you "go from idea to serverless GraphQL backend in seconds," apparently.

Grafbase

Periodic Data Updates with Next.js and Vercel Serverless Functions — Keep data current complete withinin Next.js and having to resort to cron jobs or other sorts of external workarounds.

Andreas Thomas

Use Next.js and Vercel to Build a Live App with Serverless WebSockets — Explains how to use Next.js and Vercel to build an app with shared live features provided by Ably.

Mark Lewin