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Inngest: automation features and setup
A platform for background jobs, workflows, and AI agents without additional infrastructure.
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Overview
Inngest is a good fit when an application needs to run background jobs, retries, and long-running workflows without setting up a separate queue and infrastructure from scratch. You define functions that are triggered by events, including workflows that incorporate an agent. Before production, check what happens when the same event arrives twice and what a run that fails midway looks like. It is a tool for developers and does not replace a visual builder for the whole team.
Features
- Background jobs and event-driven workflows
- Retries and state preservation between steps
- Support for workflows that incorporate AI agents
Business uses
- Sending a follow-up message after registration without blocking the website
- An agent workflow that waits for the result of an external tool
Getting started
- Connect one function to a test event.
- Make the destination fail and check the retry.
- Send the same event twice and check for duplication.
What to check
- Define a unique identifier for each business event before running at scale.
- Check runtime limits for your hosting environment.
Sources to check next
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