Nathan Flurry - Rivet - The Future of Serverless is Stateful

Nathan Flurry - Rivet - The Future of Serverless is Stateful

Author: Andrew Lisowski, Justin Bennett September 29, 2025 Duration: 42:40

This week we talk to Nathan Flurry, co-founder of Rivet, a platform for building stateful serverless applications. Rivet started as a platform for building multiplayer games, but has since evolved to be a general purpose computing platform. They're actors are a first class primitive that makes it easy to build stateful serverless applications.


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