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How Factory scaled its cloud backend to tens of millions of daily requests on Vercel

Factory on Vercel Non-technical teams were bottlenecked on engineering Droids hit Vercel's APIs to build and deploy autonomously Going self-serve exposed Factory's backend to a new category of threat Observability and WAF handle protection at the network level Tens of millions of backend API requests served daily 350ms p95 response time Scaled backend, internal tooling, and security without a dedicated infrastructure team API routes handle the customer-facing API, which launched in its own

How Factory scaled its cloud backend to one billion monthly requests on Vercel

Factory on Vercel Non-technical teams were bottlenecked on engineering Droids hit Vercel's APIs to build and deploy autonomously Going self-serve exposed Factory's backend to a new category of threat Observability and WAF handle protection at the network level One billion backend API requests served daily 350ms p95 response time Scaled backend, internal tooling, and security without a dedicated infrastructure team API routes handle the customer-facing API, which launched in its own section

OpenAI's super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics

Article URL: https://www.modelrepublic.org/articles/the-reporters-at-this-news-site-are-ai-bots.-openai%E2%80%99s-super-pac-appears-to-be-using-it-to-advance-its-political-agenda Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150561 Points: 205 # Comments: 104

Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150470 Points: 1045 # Comments: 558

ISC Stormcast For Monday, August 3rd, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10034, (Mon, Aug 3rd)

Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF

Article URL: https://sf.isopolis.city/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149966 Points: 331 # Comments: 74

Load Balancing - See fallback pool traffic separately in load balancing analytics

Load balancing analytics now shows traffic served by your fallback pool separately from traffic routed to the same pool by normal steering. Previously, requests were grouped by pool name alone. If the pool acting as your fallback also received traffic through your steering policy, both appeared as a single series, so it was not obvious from the graph whether Cloudflare was still making health-based routing decisions or had fallen back to the pool of last resort. Because the fallback pool ignores

Infraslopture and Other Paradoxes

How we're combining untrustable agents and production infrastructure without burning down our servers