18 verified briefings on Serverless. Each story includes a plain-English summary, why it matters, and the concrete action engineering teams should take.
AWS has enhanced Amazon EventBridge, allowing a central event bus to receive events from other accounts. This update simplifies complex architectures for large organizations, reducing operational overhead and costs by centralizing event management and guaranteeing message order.
A new modular architecture for Cloudflare Workers helps developers build safer multi-tenant SaaS apps. By breaking up monolithic workers into smaller services, teams can reduce deployment risks and limit the impact of failures for their customers.
AWS Lambda functions can now run for up to 90 minutes, a sixfold increase from the previous 15-minute limit. This major update opens up serverless computing for long-running data processing, machine learning, and other intensive workloads.
Cloudflare Workers can now accept raw TCP connections, ending an eight-year limitation to just HTTP. This major update unlocks new, non-web use cases like gRPC, IoT, and gaming servers on Cloudflare's global edge network.
Cloudflare has launched Kitesurf, a lightweight browser engine designed for automated tasks. It runs on serverless Workers, making it far more efficient for tools like Playwright and Puppeteer than running a full version of Chrome.
Google Cloud's serverless Apache Spark service now uses AI to automatically diagnose and suggest fixes for failed data jobs. This helps teams spend less time debugging infrastructure and more time building data pipelines.
Cloudflare released a new tool for defining CI/CD pipelines in TypeScript. It uses serverless workflows to make each step durable, allowing for automatic retries and replays to create more resilient software build processes.
Cloudflare now offers agent tracing to help developers debug AI on its Workers platform. However, the company warns that traces are not lossless, data can be truncated, and the feature will become a paid service in 2026.
Vercel now lets developers deploy Bun servers directly to its serverless functions, including support for WebSockets. This simplifies building real-time applications and improves the developer workflow by removing the need for framework wrappers.
Vercel has significantly increased the capacity of its Sandbox feature for Pro and Enterprise users. The update allows for 10,000 concurrent sandboxes and a tenfold increase in CPU allocation, enabling more complex, large-scale applications like AI tools.
AWS Lambda no longer enforces its 75 GB per-region code storage quota for functions stored in your own S3 bucket. This change helps large organizations scale their serverless applications without hitting a previously restrictive account-wide limit.
A new architectural approach uses Clean Architecture to make serverless applications portable. This lets developers write business logic once and deploy it across multiple clouds like AWS and Azure, avoiding expensive vendor lock-in.
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.