Apify
Apify provides the infrastructure developers need to build, deploy, and monetize web automation tools. The platform centers on Apify Store, a marketplace featuring 10,000+ community-built Actors. These are serverless programs that scrape websites, automate browser tasks, and power AI agents.
Developers create Actors using JavaScript, Python, or Crawlee (Apify's open-source crawling library), then publish them to the Store. When other users run your Actor, you earn money. Apify manages the infrastructure, handles payments, and processes monthly payouts to thousands of active developers.
Apify Store offers ready-to-use solutions for common use cases: extracting data from Amazon, Google Maps, and social platforms; monitoring prices; generating leads; and much more.
Under the hood, Actors automatically manage proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, JavaScript-heavy pages, and headless browser orchestration. The platform scales on demand with 99.95% uptime and maintains SOC2, GDPR, and CCPA compliance.
For workflow automation, Apify connects to Zapier, Make, n8n, and LangChain. The platform also offers an MCP server, enabling AI assistants like Claude to discover and invoke Actors programmatically.
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RunPod
RunPod provides a cloud infrastructure that enables seamless deployment and scaling of AI workloads with GPU-powered pods. By offering access to a wide array of NVIDIA GPUs, such as the A100 and H100, RunPod supports training and deploying machine learning models with minimal latency and high performance. The platform emphasizes ease of use, allowing users to spin up pods in seconds and scale them dynamically to meet demand. With features like autoscaling, real-time analytics, and serverless scaling, RunPod is an ideal solution for startups, academic institutions, and enterprises seeking a flexible, powerful, and affordable platform for AI development and inference.
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Tencent Cloud Serverless Application Center
The Serverless Application Center offers a comprehensive collection of components designed for the creation of serverless applications across different formats. By utilizing just a few lines of code, you can seamlessly create, deploy, and adjust Tencent Cloud resources like SCF, API Gateway, COS, and TencentDB, eliminating the need for tedious manual activation and management of various services across multiple consoles. This streamlined approach saves valuable time and effort for developers. Furthermore, the Serverless Application Center boasts support for more than 1,000 use cases and plugins, allowing you to focus on delivering serverless applications without the burdens of infrastructure management and upkeep. In partnership with Tencent Cloud, the Serverless Application Center, recognized as the leading serverless development platform globally, provides an all-in-one solution that covers everything from initialization and coding to debugging, resource configuration, deployment, release, and even service monitoring, alarming, and troubleshooting. This comprehensive suite empowers developers to innovate more freely and effectively in the serverless landscape.
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AWS Step Functions
AWS Step Functions serves as a serverless orchestrator, simplifying the process of arranging AWS Lambda functions alongside various AWS services to develop essential business applications. It features a visual interface that allows users to design and execute a series of event-driven workflows with checkpoints, ensuring that the application state is preserved throughout. The subsequent step in the workflow utilizes the output from the previous one, creating a seamless flow dictated by the specified business logic. As each component of your application is executed in the designated order, the orchestration of distinct serverless applications can present challenges, especially with tasks like managing retries and troubleshooting issues. The increasing complexity of distributed applications demands effective management strategies, which can be daunting. However, Step Functions alleviates much of this operational strain through integrated controls that handle sequencing, error management, retry mechanisms, and state maintenance. This functionality allows teams to focus more on innovation rather than the intricacies of application management. Ultimately, AWS Step Functions empowers users to translate business needs into technical solutions rapidly by providing intuitive visual workflows for streamlined development.
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