Vercel, Netlify, and the new era of serverless PaaS

Vercel, Netlify, and the new era of serverless PaaS

Back in the mid-2000s, the software industry and the venture capitalists funding software startups became interested in the idea of platform as a service (PaaS), promising a simple, one-stop-shop platform for software developers to take their ideas from source code to...
Vercel, Netlify, and the new era of serverless PaaS

Why open source is essential in a cloud era

As cloud continues to boom, it’s easy—but wrong—to assume that it may supplant open source. After all, much of the reason open source took off was that it enables developers to “get stuff done” without having to route requests for software licenses through Purchasing...
Vercel, Netlify, and the new era of serverless PaaS

Cloud Spanner myths busted

Intro to Cloud SpannerCloud Spanner is an enterprise-grade, globally distributed, externally consistent database that offers unlimited scalability and industry-leading 99.999% availability. It requires no maintenance windows and offers a familiar PostgreSQL interface....