Websockets for Vercel Functions: How We Built It

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Vercel has implemented WebSockets for their serverless functions, enabling stateful interactions, and the community is discussing the implications and similarities with other stateful wrapper technologies.

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skeptrune

2 months ago

I was wondering how this worked. Very cool usecase for pubsub!

crabmusket

2 months ago

It's really interesting to see this essentially providing a stateful wrapper around scalable serverless compute. Restate does something similar, where the restate service "farms out" work to e.g. Lambda. As a whole the system implements a durable, stateful process - but it can leverage these stateless compute systems to do so.

https://docs.restate.dev/foundations/key-concepts

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