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Cloudflare Workers increased the deployment size limit to 64 MB for both free and paid plans.

A guide on building a secure contact form for static sites using Cloudflare Workers and reCAPTCHA v3 to prevent spam, with comparisons to alternative solutions like Netlify Forms and Cloudflare Turnstile.

Vercel launches Fluid Compute, a flexible compute system that dynamically provisions resources for workloads like builds, sandboxes, and functions, enabling rapid iteration and handling millions of operations daily.

Introducing Solid Objects, an open-source library that implements Cloudflare's Durable Objects model on existing SQL databases, allowing developers to use it as a self-hosted dependency without additional infrastructure.

Typebase is a TypeScript-based backend tool that simplifies server deployment by allowing developers to define schemas and actions in a single folder, with support for various frontend frameworks and cloud platforms.

ENOVA is an open-source service that simplifies the deployment, monitoring, and auto-scaling of AI language models on GPU clusters, providing configuration recommendations and performance observability to improve efficiency.

Vercel announces native support for Celery, enabling Python background tasks to run on Vercel Functions with zero configuration and a pay-per-use model.

dgit is a git server implementation using Cloudflare Durable Objects, enabling decentralized, serverless git hosting with full protocol support and a web interface.

Vercel introduces agentic infrastructure with features like durable orchestration and AI model gateway to help build and scale AI agents, as used by companies such as Notion and Zapier.

Cloudflare has enhanced Workers + Access, allowing users to enable access control on specific workers, set account-wide coverage, view access details via ctx.access, and test in local development.

Tencent CloudBase adds PostgreSQL support, letting AI coding agents spin up isolated databases with a single prompt, with SQL-declared permissions and row-level security.

Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser built specifically for AI agents, enabling developers to automate web navigation and tasks without building browser software—available free in beta on its Browser Run platform.

A quick explainer from @systemdesignone teaching how Amazon Lambda works, likely with a visual aid or walkthrough.

Cloudflare is hosting Singapore Developer Day on 27 August, a full-day event for building AI apps and agents on Workers, Workers AI, Agent Memory, and AI Gateway, featuring a keynote from Vue.js creator Evan You and a hands-on hackathon.

Naïve announces a $28.5M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners to build unified infrastructure that lets AI agents operate entire businesses through a single config file and API.

Google Cloud API Gateway now offers model routing in Public Preview, providing a serverless ingress layer that accepts OpenAI-compatible requests and dynamically routes them to Gemini, Claude, or OpenAI models.

Google Cloud API Gateway announces public preview of model routing, letting developers access Gemini, Claude, and OSS models via a single endpoint using OpenAPI specs.

Rivet engineers detail how they built a zero-disk, S3-tiered storage engine for SQLite, enabling isolated databases with instant startup, low-latency writes, point-in-time recovery, and bottomless storage for millions of Actors.

DigitalOcean introduces prompt caching for LLM inference, automatically caching repeated context like system prompts to reduce input token costs by up to 80% without code changes, with a detailed tutorial on break-even math.

Kedge is a globally distributed cloud platform offering hardware-isolated VMs, global SQLite database, serverless functions, and autoscaling with per-second billing. It aims to simplify deployment of full-stack applications close to users.