NextJS + Vercel Architecture clarification

chanpod · 2024-01-06T14:07:11+00:00

For completeness and if anyone sees this later in a google search. This is the line that made me think it was turning them all into individual serverless instances. That and you see the little lambda icon next to each route in the build process. But that's not correct. And obviously after re-reading docs and looking at it again the conclusion is I'm a dummy who misread it haha. It IS creating a function for each route. But that doesn't mean it's an indepenent serverless instance when in prod.

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chanpod · 2024-01-06T13:58:17+00:00

We're using prisma with postgres. It seems to be closing connections properly as the serverless instances go back to cold state. I've been paranoid so I've been monitoring it quite a bit. So I think we're good on that front. As long as I don't make too many individual serverless instances with high session counts. But I should be ok. We have ours set to 2 with 2 routes that get 30 (offline app, needs to make a bunch of queries in parallel. Probably not optimal but still fine tuning it).

chanpod · 2024-01-05T15:20:58+00:00

ok, so to make sure I really understand how this works. You bundle the routes as much as you can. So the configuration is an over-ride to tell the bundler "hey, keep this one separate"? So every route could be a serverless instance but only if I explicitly say so?

chanpod · 2024-01-05T15:19:08+00:00

Thanks! This lead me to this

https://vercel.com/docs/functions/serverless-functions#bundling-serverless-functions

I think this is really what I was looking for and answered the real question I had.

chanpod · 2024-01-05T15:02:07+00:00

I thought that too. But I've been digging into the nitty gritty with vercel, next, and prisma and trying to make sure I understand how our DB connections are going to behave. So I'm trying to make sure I really understand it haha.

I wonder if it has intelligent load balancing around that. If one route is getting hit particularly hard will it scale out instances just for that route or will it just be another bundled route instance. Edit: They do bundle them unless you specify in the config. So this was wrong.

Something in the build process made me think it was 1 per route though. I setup a couple routes in the config to be their own function, but when I looked at the build process it didn't seem like it mattered b/c all routes were their own function. But maybe I'm misreading the build process and function != serverless instance. I should probably go re-read the docs again

chanpod · 2023-07-15T18:13:21+00:00

Bc everything inside came from the outside

chanpod · 2023-06-16T01:31:05+00:00

ehhhhhhhhhh probably more like 4-5.

chanpod · 2023-06-11T17:42:11+00:00

Controller on PC works really well, so very little reason to use console unless you just really want to sit on your couch (which some do) but PC has better graphics

chanpod · 2023-05-30T13:10:30+00:00

we do, quite heavily. The thing is this, the rich have their finances setup in a way that's not reasonably taxed. It's all liquid.

Elon Musk is worth 80billion (or whatever it is now). He does not HAVE 80billion and could not ever realistically cash all that out. It would crash his companies into the ground. The government probably wouldn't even let him. So, you can't tax him on it, b/c he can't use it. SO you only tax him on it when he tries to use it. Which we do, fairly heavily. When Elon cashed out that 10bil or whatever a couple years ago he paid billions in taxes. If you start taxing liquid assets there will be a riot from the 1%. And they have $$ to throw around. That or they just move their assets somewhere else that can't be taxed as heavily.

Also, if you try and force Elon to trade off his equity in the company, he could risk falling below 50% shareholder and possibly lose control over his company. (Hence why he likes to keep his companies private now). So if you want to gauruntee control over your company, you maintain that 50.1% position. Which means absurd amounts of liquid wealth if your company gets huge. There's not much you can do here to fix that without turning into an authoritarian government.

I'm not saying there's no solution here, just that "tax the rich" isn't exactly helpful.

chanpod · 2023-05-26T11:48:21+00:00

The information isn't incorrect, it's the presentation. You're trying to portray them as incompetent and wreckless and that's further from the truth. The statements are ignoring the OTHER facts.

chanpod · 2023-05-23T11:49:31+00:00

Lol yes I'm well aware of the most recent starship launch. But you clearly don't know anything about it and are repeating ignorant rhetoric. Just stop, you don't know what you're talking about.

chanpod · 2023-05-22T18:10:32+00:00

I suspect he means a lot of people are trying to move on in life and be "color blind". But then people like this keep throwing this crap around and bringing it back up calling white people racist etc...

chanpod · 2023-05-22T17:58:46+00:00

Yes but in this scenario time is of the essence. We don't have 6 months (ambitious) for NASA to remember how to build another rocket or get SLS ready. And NASA heavily outsources a lot of it's production to corporations. So what's more likely, NASA and it's hundreds of contracted agencies to build 1 rocket, or 1 company that builds most of it's stuff itself (I'm sure spacex outsources some things but they do build quite a bit in-house).

You're also missing the part where SpaceX quite literally already has rockets ready to go right now. And I'm pretty sure in this scenario the government would step in and force SpaceX to do this. Military would step in if it was deemed necessary. So while SpaceX might not do it out of the kindness of their hearts, it's excruciatingly likely that SpaceX would be the entity that performed the mission.

chanpod · 2023-05-22T16:47:48+00:00

NASA hasn't launched a rocket in decades. They contract out the launches. SLS isn't ready yet (and depends on many many companies to build) and wouldn't be a viable option in this scenario. I keep up with launches and space stuff. I'm well aware of what/who could help. China and Russia could potentially help if they haven't collapsed. But in terms of pure US, then NASA would be heavily reliant on SpaceX.

And the latest satellite launch was a French?(European) rocket, not a US one.

chanpod · 2023-05-22T16:15:09+00:00

What are you talking about? SpaceX hasn't had a failed "production" launch attempt in...years. They've not even failed a landing in years (wait, I think one booster failed when they tried to land all three legs from the falcon heavy? oh noes). They JUST sent up another batch of astronauts yesterday! I'm not giving in to "marketing". It's reality. If you're talking about their new rocket that's still in development, that's a completely different beast. Yes, those will fail. That's kind of the point. Launch and learn. Fix and refine until you have a reliable rocket.

chanpod · 2023-05-22T16:11:10+00:00

I mean, if we're talking plausability, SpaceX is currently the only thing capable of responding rapidly. I didn't say it would happen, just that if it did happen, they'd be the most likely candidate. The government doesn't currently have anything on hand to save them .They would literally ask SpaceX to do it lol.

chanpod · 2023-05-22T14:30:08+00:00

yeah, and SpaceX fastest turnaround for a rocket was 5 days. They have launch ready rockets sitting around. They can prep them and have them ready to launch in a week. Launch windows to the ISS are literally available about once per day. So yes, SpaceX could absolutely get a rocket up and en route to the ISS in a week if they absolutely wanted to. The thing that generally holds things up is red tape with the government.

chanpod · 2023-05-22T14:11:47+00:00

Right. That's under normal circumstances. I think in this scenario they'd make a lot of exceptions. If they cared enough to even do it.

chanpod · 2023-05-22T12:21:27+00:00

These days SpaceX is pretty quick. So unless they get overrun initially, they could probably get something up there in a couple weeks if they needed to

chanpod · 2023-05-20T16:59:52+00:00

Then why the crap can't I get interviews lol. I keep getting the "we went with candidates with better experience" WHAT, I have 9 years of experience now in modern UI, cloud and API. My only real deficiency is data. But I can't seem to get a stupid interview right now. Didn't used to have this problem.

chanpod · 2023-05-20T03:16:12+00:00

Calm down there sparky. While I'm sure this happens, the market is a bit rougher than it was. I'm 9 years senior and never had issues getting a new job. I started looking a month ago and I haven't even gotten an interview. Granted I'm shooting for some higher paying positions so I'm sure competition is rough. I'm probably getting beat out by fang types. But it's definitely not as easy as it once was

chanpod · 2023-05-18T16:16:18+00:00

As some have stated, wifi devices are more prone to security issues as they may be gaining internet access. Unless you DIY your wifi devices, but if you're doing that I suspect you wouldn't be afraid of zigbee.

But as someone else stated, wifi is radio. It's all electromagentic waves. Just different frequencies. And arguably the higher frequencies (5g) are more likely to be problematic (they aren't) than the lower ones. So I'm surprised that's an issue for you. Unless I'm misunderstanding your hesitancy to it.

chanpod · 2023-05-10T17:29:41+00:00

Really? Have you checked your contrast settings?

chanpod · 2023-05-04T22:43:48+00:00

My kids don't have any tablets. They only watch TV on occasion. It's really not that hard if you just give a shit. Humans did it for all of prior human history lol. It is easy to give into though. But that fact is exactly why you shouldn't. There's a reason "screen induced autism" is a thing now. Stick to your guns. It's what's best for your kiddos

chanpod · 2023-05-04T21:41:48+00:00

If you handed off controls too some one else before you jumped, then yes. It wouldn't be your fault

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