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Super curious: What are the advantages of Vercel over something like Netlify or Cloudflare? I thought they're all about the same these days?

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They are pretty different in the details tho, with vercel for example you have turbo/repo/pack to handle monorepo bundling/caching.

Also Vercel's and Netlify's serverless function might be similar but ain't exactly 1:1 the same.

I think vercel is more powerful, netlify seems more oriented to frontenders or so to me, dunno

All of them are UX wrappers of AWS infra underneath anyways

Except for Cloudflare workers which is run on, predictably, Cloudflare

For building a Next.js app, it’s Vercel —> Netlify —> Cloudflare —> AWS Amplify

My prediction is that somebody is going to merge with somebody. Or somebody is going to acquire another when the finance markets stabilize.

AWS should buy Architect Serverless. It’s the most AWS-specific and the easiest (infra is a few lines in package.json) and Amazon have shown it on stage at re:invent a few times as one of their preferred ways for customers to do serverless.

Architect, for building database-backed web apps on AWS, simplifies provisioning with a high-level manifest file that turns cloud infra into a build artifact, making the development process faster and more flexible.

Cool stuff:

1. Speedy local development with smart defaults.

2. Equal focus on local, staging, and production environments.

3. Seamless integration with AWS SAM and CloudFormation.

4. Secure least privilege access for resources.

5. Open source under Apache 2.0 and part of the OpenJS Foundation.

6. Backward compatibility and regular updates.

https://arc.codes/docs/en/get-started/why-architect

For Sveltekit I've found cloudflare pages much faster than vercel but YMMV.

More like Vercel -> any Node service -> remainder

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