Vercel Daemons Coined in MIT in 1963, "we fancifully began to use the word daemon to describe background processes that worked tirelessly to perform system chores", inspired by Maxwell’s thought experiment of an imaginary agent in thermodynamics.

Vercel Developers@vercel_dev11h ago

Vercel Daemons is now in public beta. Run background workers that pull jobs from queues, databases, or third-party systems. https://t.co/jO01BMGwXr