6 verified briefings on Serverless. Each story includes a plain-English summary, why it matters, and the concrete action engineering teams should take.
Vercel now supports WebSockets in its serverless functions, a long-requested feature. This allows developers to build real-time applications like live chats and collaborative tools directly on the platform, paying only for active processing time.
Azure Functions now has a serverless agents runtime in public preview. It lets developers build AI-powered automations without the usual cold start delays or extra costs on the Flex Consumption plan.
Vercel is updating its pricing model for serverless function invocations, shifting from package-based billing to a per-unit system. The change affects Pro and new Enterprise customers and will take effect at the start of their next billing cycle, aligning costs more directly with actual usage.
ClickHouse has introduced ClickStack Cloud, a new serverless observability platform. It's a fully managed service built on the ClickHouse database, designed to handle logs, metrics, and traces. The platform uses a managed endpoint for OpenTelemetry data, allowing teams to analyze systems without managing infrastructure.
A developer on the Netlify Community forum reported a deployment failure due to a serverless function exceeding the platform's 250 MB size limit. This error prevents site updates and highlights a critical constraint for developers building complex applications on the platform, requiring code optimization.
A new guide demonstrates how to scrape modern, dynamic websites that load content on scroll. Traditional tools often fail on these sites. The method uses Python, Playwright, and AWS Lambda to create a serverless scraper that simulates user scrolling to extract complete data sets effectively.