Vercel's Durable Serverless for AI Agents

Resources

Books

• "Search" by Author Name - This book is relevant because the host mentions that Malte Ubl worked on Search at Google.

Videos & Documentaries

• v0 - This was mentioned as a Vercel product that the hosts are interested in discussing, related to building the next web and framework-defined infrastructure.

Research & Studies

• "anomaly detection" - This is a field of study relevant to the discussion of Vercel's DevOps agent, which uses anomaly detection.

Tools & Software

• Temporal - Mentioned as a tool that innovated on explicit abstractions for workflows.
• Red Hat - Used as an example of a business model for open-source software, selling support.
• Langchain - Mentioned as a competing library in the AI SDK space.
• OpenAI's SDK - Mentioned as a competing AI SDK that leads with an agent abstraction.
• Datadog - Mentioned as a company that, like Sentry, is trying to provide observability but is limited because they don't own the code.
• Sentry - Mentioned as a company that, like Datadog, is trying to provide observability but is limited because they don't own the code.
• Work OS - Mentioned as something that has come closest to providing agent-native infrastructure.

Articles & Papers

• "blog post about like all the alternatives we considered" - This blog post discussed alternatives considered for the workflow development kit.

People Mentioned

• Malte Ubl (CTO of Vercel) - The guest on the podcast, discussing Vercel's AI initiatives.
• Guillermo Rauch (founder of Vercel) - Mentioned as the person from whom the founding principle of Vercel (never giving an abstraction they haven't used themselves) comes.
• Sebastian Markboga (tech lead of React) - Quoted as having said "have a small API surface area," a governing principle for framework development.
• Brian Johnson - Mentioned in the context of AI SRE and the desire for good sleep, implying a connection to well-being and system reliability.

Organizations & Institutions

• Google - Mentioned as a former employer of Malte Ubl and a place where Wiz might be known.
• Uber - Mentioned as one of the companies that contributed to the emergence of workflows.
• Stripe - Mentioned as one of the companies that contributed to the emergence of workflows.
• TS 39 - Mentioned in the context of working to bring decorators into more places in TypeScript.

Courses & Educational Resources

• CS classes - Mentioned as a place where workflows are not typically taught.
• boot camps - Mentioned as a place where workflows are not typically taught.

Websites & Online Resources

• Vercel - The company the guest is CTO of, and the focus of much of the discussion regarding their AI products and initiatives.
• X (formerly Twitter) - Mentioned as a platform where Malte Ubl spends a lot of time.
• LinkedIn - Mentioned as a tool an agent can use for lead qualification.
• Github - Not explicitly mentioned, but implied as the likely platform for open-sourced agents.

Other Resources

• Ship AI - The Vercel conference that the episode is recapping.
• Agents - A core topic of discussion, referring to AI agents and their applications.
• Workflows - A key Vercel product and discussion topic, referring to workflow development kits.
• Self-efficient runtimes - A topic the hosts have interest in covering.
• Framework defined infrastructure - A concept related to Vercel's approach to building the web.
• Code review agent - An internal Vercel agent that was shipped a while ago.
• DevOps agent - A new Vercel agent tied to their anomaly detection system.
• AI SRE - A concept discussed in relation to Vercel's DevOps agent.
• Data warehouse - Mentioned as a data source for the data and analyst agent.
• Agent on every desk program - A Vercel program involving forward-deployed engineers to help companies build agents.
• Flask - A popular Python framework that Vercel now supports with zero-config deployment.
• FastAPI - A popular Python framework that Vercel now supports with zero-config deployment.
• Vercel API - A Python SDK for this API has been shipped.
• Fluid Compute program - A Vercel program offering active CPU processing, particularly useful for AI backends.
• Incoming contact sales requests - One of the Vercel internal agents, open-sourced, for lead qualification.
• Abuse analysis - Another Vercel internal agent, open-sourced, for processing abuse reports.
• Data and analyst agent - An internal Vercel agent for asking questions against data warehouses, also open-sourced.