Serverless Deployments with Google Cloud Run + NextJS on Vercel

[simonireilly]

I have been working on serverless deployment strategies for Meilisearch.

I have found that I can get good performance from Meilisearch running on Google Cloud Run, with 1 v.CPU and 128MB of RAM.

It is stateless, and works by precomputing the index, and triggering a cloud build in CI to automatically deploy the changes. It requires a redeploy to update the index, but that works well for static sites and builds take only 2 minutes.

The benefit is that since cloud run will process 2 million requests a month for free, there is very little costs.

Also, cloud run will create multiple horizontally scaling containers on demand to handle load.

I wrote a detailed post about this on my blog, including load and performance testing of the API and a NextJS site powered by the Cloud Run API and react-instantsearch.

https://blog.simonireilly.com/posts/serverless-search

[curquiza]

Hello @simonireilly!
Really nice article! Thanks for sharing this with us! ❤️ It's a really nice job!!

[simonireilly]

Thanks for reading, appreciate it 👍