INFRASTRUCTURE

A long-form technical read on Flue from Fred K Schott, with deeper comparisons against OpenAI Agents, Vercel AI SDK, Google ADK, LangChain, Deep Agents, and CrewAI, plus practical production patterns.

Cloudflare Flagship is feature flags built for AI: model swaps, agent gates, and prompt rollouts as first-class primitives. Here is how to use it without rebuilding your control plane.

Vercel just declared the agent stack: AI Gateway, Sandbox, Flags, and Microfrontends. Here is how the four primitives compose, with code, and where each one actually fits in a real product.

Durable execution lands on Vercel. What it means for agents, long-running flows, and indie dev stacks - with code, gotchas, and where it fits the agent stack.

Google's BaaS platform. Firestore (NoSQL), Realtime Database, Auth, Cloud Functions, Hosting, and ML. Free Spark tier; pay-as-you-go Blaze.

TypeScript ORM with a schema-first workflow. Prisma Client gives full type safety; Prisma Migrate handles migrations. Works with Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB.

Serverless Postgres with branching. Free tier, instant database branches per PR, autoscaling compute, and scale-to-zero. Acquired by Databricks in 2025.

MySQL-compatible serverless database built on Vitess. Branching, non-blocking schema changes, and horizontal sharding. Reintroduced a hobby tier in 2025.

Run full-stack apps on lightweight VMs at the edge. Deploy via flyctl, scale across regions, attach Postgres and Redis. Pay-as-you-go pricing.

Heroku-style PaaS. Deploy web services, background workers, cron jobs, and managed Postgres from Git. Free tier for static sites and small services.

European cloud and dedicated server provider. Famously cheap dedicated boxes, generous bandwidth, and Cloud VPS that undercut AWS by an order of magnitude.

Amazon's flagship compute service. Hundreds of instance types, every region, deep integration with the rest of AWS. The default enterprise compute layer.

agentfs is filesystem-shaped storage for AI agents. Postgres-backed on Neon, no cold starts, no exec by design. Pay-only plans start at twenty dollars.

Managed scheduling on Anthropic infrastructure with API and GitHub triggers.

Serverless cloud for AI/ML workloads. Write Python with decorators, Modal handles GPU provisioning and scaling. 2-4s cold starts. Scales to zero. $30/mo free compute.

Run 50,000+ ML models with a simple API. No infrastructure management. Pay-per-second billing. Deploy custom models with Cog. Popular for image generation and audio.

Fastest inference for open-source models. 200+ models via unified API. Ranks #1 on speed benchmarks for DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and Llama. Serverless pay-per-token pricing.

LPU-powered inference delivering 500-1,000+ tokens/sec. Purpose-built chip with on-chip SRAM instead of HBM. 5-10x faster than GPU providers. Free tier available.

Wafer-scale AI inference at 3,000+ tokens/sec. The WSE-3 chip has 4 trillion transistors and 900K AI cores. 20x faster than GPU providers. OpenAI partnership for inference.

Open-source Firebase alternative built on Postgres. Auth, real-time subscriptions, storage, edge functions, and pgvector for AI embeddings. Generous free tier.