Inngest
Event-driven workflow and background job platform
Inngest is an open-source platform for building event-driven workflows and reliable background jobs. It provides durable step functions, automatic retries and a local development server, and the execution engine can be self-hosted.
Key features
- Event-driven background jobs
- Durable step functions
- Local development server
- Self-hostable execution engine
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Good developer experience
- Reliable step execution
Trade-offs
- Some features tied to Inngest Cloud
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