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Hacker News front pageminimallysufficient.comHN11424How Factory scaled its cloud backend to one billion monthly requests on Vercel
Factory runs its entire SaaS backend on a single Next.js app deployed to Vercel, handling about a billion API requests per day with 350 ms p95 latency. They achieve this with Vercel’s Fluid compute to avoid cold starts, built‑in observability and WAF for security, and internal automation (“Droids”) that let non‑engineers deploy tools without extra infrastructure.
Vercelvercel.com4 minNote on 18th September 2026
This entry is a brief, sponsored blurb that offers a vague opinion on using LLMs for security scanning, without any concrete data or analysis. It links to other recent articles but adds no substantive content of its own.
Simon Willisonsimonwillison.net1 minQwen 3.8 Max now available on Vercel AI Gateway
Vercel AI Gateway now offers Qwen 3.8 Max, a 2.4 T‑parameter multimodal LLM with up to 1 M token context. It can be invoked via the standard `streamText` API or through Vercel’s coding agents, with no extra platform fees and full control over usage and security.
Vercelvercel.com1 minreleaseHobby projects now retain fewer deployments to free up storage
Vercel Hobby projects now retain fewer old deployments to manage the 10GB storage limit. The new policy keeps only the 3 most recent production and 3 most recent overall deployments, with immediate deletion for projects over capacity.
Vercelvercel.com1 minreleaseAI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Prompting LLMs with explicit design style descriptors yields a wide variety of non‑generic AI‑generated event posters, letting you avoid the bland, repetitive look that dominates many community flyers.
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