Inngest

What is Inngest?

Inngest is a robust platform designed to simplify building reliable and scalable workflows by combining event streams, queues, and durable execution into a unified system. It allows developers to write durable, long-running step functions that automatically handle retries, scheduling, concurrency, and state management without the overhead of managing infrastructure like queues or event brokers. Inngest supports running functions on any platform—serverless, servers, or edge—and provides advanced flow control features including throttling, batching, prioritization, and debouncing. The platform emphasizes developer experience with local development parity, visual debugging, and comprehensive observability and recovery tools, making it ideal for complex AI workflows, integrations, and business logic orchestration.

Key Features

• Durable Execution Engine

  Automatically manages retries, state, scheduling, and error handling for complex workflows, ensuring reliable function execution.

• Advanced Flow Control

  Built-in concurrency limits, throttling, rate-limiting, debouncing, and dynamic prioritization to optimize resource usage and fairness.

• Multi-Platform Support

  Run functions seamlessly on serverless platforms, dedicated servers, or edge environments without changing code.

• Local Development with Production Parity

  Open source dev server provides real-time visual debugging and instant feedback, enabling faster iteration and confidence before deployment.

• Comprehensive Observability and Recovery

  Integrated tracing, metrics, bulk replay, and pause/resume capabilities allow quick debugging and incident recovery.

• Enterprise-Grade Security and Compliance

  SOC 2 compliance, HIPAA support, end-to-end encryption, SSO, and SAML integration for secure, scalable deployments.

Use Cases

• AI Workflow Orchestration : Manage complex, stateful AI processes such as chained step functions and LLM orchestration with automatic retries and error handling.
• Background Job Processing : Run reliable background tasks and long-running jobs out of the critical request path with durable execution guarantees.
• Event-Driven Integrations : Connect and automate workflows triggered by internal events, external webhooks, or scheduled cron jobs.
• High-Volume Pipeline Management : Batch and throttle large volumes of events efficiently to reduce costs and improve throughput in data-intensive applications.
• Business Logic Automation : Build complex workflows with conditional steps, human-in-the-loop pauses, and declarative cancellation for reliable business processes.

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