Vercel is giving developers more options for running their backends on its platform. At its Ship conference in San Francisco on Thursday, the company introduced Daemons, a new service for continuously running background workers, and made its Python support generally available. It also made Drives, its persistent storage for AI agents, generally available. Always-on workers, pull-based jobs Daemons, which is now in public beta, lets developers deploy a container and specify how many instances should run in each region. Vercel makes sure those processes keep running and restarts them if they...

Source: The New Stack