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Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture

by Andreas Thomas unkey.com published 2025-08-01

Every millisecond matters when you're in the critical path of API authentication. After two years of fighting serverless limitations, we rebuilt our entire API stack and slashed the end-to-end latency.

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