CDNs as the OG Serverless

Following on from my column this week about Vercel, I was part of a podcast interviewing Guillermo Rauch, founder and CEO of Vercel. Check it out. Great point here about CDNs being the “OG serverless”:

You can deploy to an essentially serverless infrastructure, right? I always tell people that content delivery networks were the OG serverless — because they never required management. They were perfectly delegated. It’s a globally distributed system with no single point of failure. You’re not going to have to worry about Linux and Apache because you can deploy to any distributed global network that can serve essentially markup, JavaScript, CSS and static files. Then obviously to power the API, server rendering and more advanced functionality, the Vercel network gives you serverless functions. So we try to complete the entire JAMstack equation.