[mhoad]

Add me to the list of voices who are highly skeptical about Vercel.

I recall watching a video on their YouTube account a few months ago where their head of devrel tried to interview a famous personality from the “cloud native” community (Kelsey Hightower) as a way to introduce their “edge functions” nonsense.

The entire thing was a train wreck from about ten minutes in when he started asking questions about how it actually worked and what kind of trade offs it would imply.

I remember they had to do a bunch of obvious hard cuts presumably to remove the more embarrassing stuff and it always stood out as a snake oil company to me ever since then.

The fact that they also seem to rely on deceptive pricing and dark patterns for sales seems very on brand with what I recall thinking about them at the time.

The interview in question is here in case anyone is interested https://youtu.be/yuxd2kurpzk

[leerob]

I’m sorry you feel this way. I personally enjoyed the interview quite a bit (Kelsey is very knowledgeable about both the past and present of computing).

I cut out parts of the interview to make it shorter. If you’d like to verify what I showed, you can deploy an Astro site with Edge Functions for free: https://vercel.com/templates/astro/astro-edge-functions

Open to feedback on how we can do better next time. Would you prefer more discussion about tradeoffs?