State of the Web: Serverless Functions

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Vercel

Vercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration.

However, that is not the end of the story. Since then, many services have improved on AWS Lambda's model in ways like ease of use and performance. The first notable FaaS provider was Vercel (ZEIT Now at the time), which was released in April of 2016 and was a lot simpler to use than Lambda. Another selling point was that it integrated well with Next.js, a React framework made by Vercel. Other, newer services also try to be a lot easier, like Begin, although Vercel is still the most popular in that group.

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Next.js

A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps
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However, that is not the end of the story. Since then, many services have improved on AWS Lambda's model in ways like ease of use and performance. The first notable FaaS provider was Vercel (ZEIT Now at the time), which was released in April of 2016 and was a lot simpler to use than Lambda. Another selling point was that it integrated well with Next.js, a React framework made by Vercel. Other, newer services also try to be a lot easier, like Begin, although Vercel is still the most popular in that group.

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Google App Engine

A powerful platform to build web and mobile apps that scale automatically.

Google created the first serverless model in their Google App Engine product, which offered auto-scaling stateless code execution. App Engine was different from most more recent serverless function providers, but it was the first product to try this idea. However, while it was used by companies like Snapchat, it did not catch on with the overall developer community.

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Begin

Create and work with tasks inside Slack
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However, that is not the end of the story. Since then, many services have improved on AWS Lambda's model in ways like ease of use and performance. The first notable FaaS provider was Vercel (ZEIT Now at the time), which was released in April of 2016 and was a lot simpler to use than Lambda. Another selling point was that it integrated well with Next.js, a React framework made by Vercel. Other, newer services also try to be a lot easier, like Begin, although Vercel is still the most popular in that group.

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AWS Lambda Landing Page
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AWS Lambda

Automatic, event-driven compute service
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- Open Source
The first Function as a Service (FaaS) provider to truly catch on was AWS Lambda. AWS Lambda was a serverless function service that Amazon released in November 2014. Lambda allows for functions written in many different languages to automatically scale in under a second while allowing users not to have to worry about the underlying hardware. Companies like Google, Microsoft, and Oracle also created their own service for serverless functions. Although to this day, Lambda is the most popular serverless function provider, and since its release, it has become faster, more flexible, and easier to use.

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