Tag: serverless

14 articles

· cloudflare-workers / pricing

The real cost of running production on Cloudflare Workers

Workers is cheap for I/O-heavy APIs at high request volume. KV writes, D1 write bugs, and unhibernated Durable Objects are where bills go sideways.

· cloudflare / workers

Cloudflare Workers in 2026 — when to choose them

Near-zero cold starts, 330+ PoPs, and genuinely cheap at scale. The no-regional-pinning limitation and 128 MB memory ceiling are real blockers for some teams. Here's what the deployment decision actually looks like.

· database / postgres

Neon in 2026 — serverless Postgres one year in review

Neon's copy-on-write branching and free tier are the real story. Cold starts and spotty reliability are the honest caveats. A year of production data.

· upstash / redis

Upstash vs Redis Cloud — serverless Redis for edge apps

Upstash is the only managed Redis for Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge, and Next.js Edge. Redis Cloud requires TCP, which V8-isolate environments block entirely.

· rate-limiting / redis

Best rate-limit library for Node.js + Redis in 2026

rate-limiter-flexible is the default for Node.js APIs on Redis. @upstash/ratelimit is the only serverless edge option. Here is how to choose.

· typescript / orm

Prisma ORM in 2026: Has It Caught Up to Drizzle at Last?

Drizzle still leads on edge and serverless. Prisma 7's Rust-free rewrite is a real architectural shift — here is who should switch and who should stay.

· database / edge

Edge database tradeoffs: when latency is a lie

Edge databases cut read latency globally, but writes still go to a single primary. When D1, Turso, Neon, or PlanetScale makes sense — and when Postgres wins.

· deno / cloudflare

Deno Deploy vs Cloudflare Workers: 2026 Comparison

Cloudflare Workers is the default for most teams. Deno Deploy fits only if you are Deno-native and accept a 2-region platform with a contracting footprint.

· typescript / orm

How to Migrate from Prisma to Drizzle ORM: Step-by-Step

Step-by-step Prisma to Drizzle migration: schema conversion, query rewrites, transaction refactoring, and eight gotchas most tutorials skip.

· bun / nodejs

Bun in 2026: everything that changed since 1.0 and what actually breaks

From a promising runtime to a full-stack platform — Bun 1.2, 1.3, and the Anthropic acquisition changed the migration calculus. Here is what actually matters.

· cloudflare / vercel

Cloudflare Workers vs Vercel Functions: 2026 Comparison

Workers wins on cost and global reach. Vercel Functions wins on Next.js throughput and DX. The 128 MB memory ceiling is what actually decides it.

· turso / cloudflare

Turso vs Cloudflare D1: Which Edge SQLite Should You Pick?

D1 is the obvious choice if you live in Cloudflare Workers. Turso is the right pick everywhere else: Node.js, Deno, Bun, and Vercel. Here is the data.

· database / postgres

Neon vs Supabase — Serverless Postgres Compared (2026)

Neon wins on cold starts and edge compatibility; Supabase wins if you need auth, storage, and realtime bundled in. Here is the data to make the call.

· cloudflare / aws

Cloudflare Workers vs AWS Lambda: Serverless in 2026

Workers wins for global I/O-bound APIs. Lambda still owns CPU-heavy jobs, long timeouts, and teams already deep in AWS. Here is exactly where each one breaks.