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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 22nd, 2019

High Scalability

Hell, many of these providers are just providing open source API compatibility with custom-built backends! What happens when no new open source comes out of the smaller companies, and the big-3 decide they don't really need or want to play nice anymore? slobodan_ : "It is serverless the same way WiFi is wireless.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

In the 2000s we had a showdown of two popular blog publishing platforms — MovableType in 2001 and WordPress in 2003. It was a battle of not only proprietary vs open source but also static vs dynamic. Netlify , Vercel , CloudFlare , and AWS all have the concept of serverless functions run at edge nodes of a CDN.

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