How Factory scaled its cloud backend to one billion monthly requests on Vercel
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vercel.com
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Susan Aziz
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Why it matters
It offers a real-world blueprint for delegating routine SDLC work to AI agents while reserving engineer attentionThe mechanism that lets a model weigh which earlier words matter for the word it's currently processing — the core operation of a transformer.Full definition → for high-stakes review, along with evidence that a single Next.js app can serve as production backend infrastructure at serious scale.
Terms in this piece · Glossary
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
attention — The mechanism that lets a model weigh which earlier words matter for the word it's currently processing — the core operation of a transformer.
