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#Serverless

Technical articles, field notes, and systems troubleshooting tagged under #Serverless.

V8 Isolates: How They Work, Who Runs Them, and How to Replace Docker on a Bare VPS

How V8 isolates work at the C++ heap and OS level, how Cloudflare, Deno, Supabase, and tgcloud run them, and how to replace 20 Docker containers on a bare Ubuntu VPS with a single workerd or edge-runtime daemon.

Deploying Astro and Embedded SQLite on tgcloud V8 Isolates

Implementation guide for deploying an Astro SPA and colocated embedded SQLite on Telegram's native serverless runtime.

MCP v2 and the 2026-07-28 Spec - Running Stateless MCP Servers on Cloudflare Workers

Breaking down why MCP v1's stateful session model was painful on the web, how the 2026-07-28 spec makes Streamable HTTP stateless, and how to deploy on Cloudflare Workers without Durable Objects.

Testing Telegram Native Serverless - Zero Webhooks and No Cron

Building on Telegram's native serverless runtime: zero webhooks, embedded SQLite, streaming Groq Whisper audio, and the lack of native cron.

Building Lucky - Why All My Assumptions Were Wrong

What happened when bot engineering met salon reality: killing NLP parsing for a Mini App calendar, dealing with Google Calendar reversion, and hitting the 24h Business API wall.

The Real Economics of Edge Compute

Why developers hesitate to leave regional Docker containers for edge isolates, how Active CPU billing works, and an empirical economic comparison across Cloudflare, AWS, and Google.

How I Built an Invisible Telegram CRM

Building a zero-cost, automated booking and client CRM directly inside Telegram for a nail studio using Cloudflare Workers, D1 SQLite, and KV.

Monetizing Cloudflare Worker APIs with Coinbase CDP x402

A practical engineering guide to monetizing Cloudflare Worker APIs and MCP tools on Base Mainnet using Coinbase CDP x402, Permit2 signatures, and dual-layer interception.