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Upstash
Company blog · upstash.com/blogdataaiprogramming
Upstash is the company blog at upstash.com, writing about data, ai and programming. Since 2021, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “Upstash: Serverless Database for Redis (Per-Request Pricing)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a serverless Redis and Kafka provider with HTTP/REST SDKs, and as a newer serverless database option. Commenters discuss the product rather than the blog writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Serverless Redis, Vector and Search databases with low latency and pay-as-you-go pricing. Upstash is the data platform for modern and AI applications — create a Redis database in seconds.
Most-linked posts?
- Upstash: Serverless Database for Redis (Per-Request Pricing)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-03-20
- Upstash3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-06-07
- QStash: Messaging for the Serverless2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-19
What Hacker News says?
upstash, very cf-worker oriented https://www.upstash.com/
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on “Cloudflare Pages goes full stack”Submitted Redis Get Your S* Together as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWe've been using https://upstash.com/ which charges per request, but has a nice SDK that allows easy Redis connections in Cloudflare Worker & AWS Lambda environments. It's been a very nice experience so far. Are there are any good open source libraries that use REST connections to Redis so you can use it in "serverless" environments?
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on “Render: a Zero DevOps Cloud Platform”Submitted Show HN: Upstash managed Kafka connectors with no extra charge as a story · 5 points
HN discussionUpstash developer evangelists where art thou? Come quickly, everyone’s waiting for you! https://upstash.com
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on “Redis To Go is shutting down”Submitted Show HN: Indexing Wikipedia for Semantic Search as a story · 4 points
HN discussionServerless DBaaS providers and HTTP APIs are a huge new development. Mongo Atlas Serverless, Planetscale (MySQL/Vitess https://planetscale.com ), Upstash (Redis, https://upstash.com ) and Neon (upcoming Postgres). They add features like merge requests on DDL and make managing DBs as easy as managing Lambda functions. This reduces maintenance overhead significantly.
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on “Ask HN: What are interesting new developments in databases related fields?”Submitted Upstash Launches QStash: Messaging for Serverless as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI have a hosted code-first agent builder platform in production, so I respond these question a lot from our customers. 1. Probably the best is fly.io IMHO. It has a nice balance between running ephemeral containers that can support long running tasks, and quickly booting up to respond to a tool call. [1] 2. If your task is truly long running, (I'm thinking several minutes), probably wise to put trigger [2] or tempor…
Comment linking /docs/vector/overall/getstarted
on “Ask HN: What's your serverless stack for AI/LLM apps in production?”Submitted QStash: Messaging for the Serverless as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm guessing the authors are making an internal pitch that a16z should invest in upstash[1]? I'm not feeling it personally - the whole hypothesis seems definitely not aligned with what I've seen. I've never seen people trying to build transaction guarantees into their whole microservices stack using Fancy New Startup Tech[tm]. What I have seen a lot is people building transaction guarantees into their stack using so…
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on “Moderen Transactional Stack”Submitted LangChain Explained as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHi all, We are working on our Workflow product at Upstash, and there is a feature we are very excited about. Basically, you can let the Upstash Workflow wait for a third party API call without costing you any runtime. Once the API call finishes, your workflow can carry on from where it left off! In our example we call an endpoint which takes ~20 seconds. Comparing the cost of waiting for such a request in Vercel and…
Comment linking /docs/qstash/workflow/getstarted
on “Reducing Vercel Costs by up to 90%”Submitted MCP server that gives any agent a sandbox, browser and GitHub access as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm trying out Upstash for this - https://upstash.com/
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on “Show HN: Shuz – Easy close-quarters messaging, with help from QR codes”Submitted Upstash Workflow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSuper cool. Did you do any research on MSK vs other hosted Kafka alternatives? I just came across: https://upstash.com/blog/serverless-kafka-launch
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on “Is Kafka the Key? The Evolution of Highlight's Ingest”Submitted Say Farewell to Surprise Vercel Bills as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Are Vectors and Why Store Them in a Vector Database? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Benchmarking Cloudflare KV vs. Upstash Redis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upstash hires software engineer / devrel as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Edge Flags as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Serverless Analytics for Next.js with Vercel Edge, Upstash Kafka and Tinybird as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Context7 vs. Claude Code's Web Search: A Token and Cost Benchmark as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Keep Claude Fable 5 Costs Under Control as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Context7 Without Context Bloat as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Global Database for Serverless and Edge as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upgradable Read Write Lock for Go as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upstash as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upstash: Serverless Database for Redis as a story · 1 points
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