Defer
Defer is a B2B company based in Paris, specializing in engineering, product, and design solutions for background processing, offering a platform that allows developers to manage CRON jobs and long tasks directly from code.
Company Background
Defer, headquartered in Paris, Île-de-France, France, is a B2B company operating in the engineering, product, and design sub-industries. The company was part of the Y Combinator W23 batch and focuses on providing developer tools and SaaS solutions. With a team size of 2, Defer has an early-stage development status and serves regions including France and Europe.
Services and Features
Defer simplifies background processing for developers by allowing them to define CRON jobs directly from code using the 'defer.cron()' function. The platform supports running long tasks with customizable time limits starting at 30 minutes and guarantees precise control over concurrency at the function level. It ensures jobs are executed in the exact order they were enqueued and maintains a full history of executions, including arguments, results, and final states. With support for payloads up to 16MB, the platform offers elastic scaling, fault tolerance with a distributed scheduling cluster, and a persisted queue to ensure no execution is lost.
Product Capabilities
Defer's platform allows developers to enqueue millions of jobs without worrying about storage limitations. It provides options to control RAM and CPU resources at the function level and supports concurrent job execution to improve performance. Specifically designed to aid Node.js developers, Defer enables them to move slow code out of the user's journey, offering a simple, well-documented API that enhances web application performance. The platform also includes a full-featured managed service with an operational dashboard.
Industry Recognition
Defer has been featured in two of the largest Node.js newsletters. After a successful launch on Hacker News, the company quickly garnered 250+ users and secured five paying customers. These achievements underscore the platform's relevance and adoption within the developer community.
Mission and Vision
Defer aims to become a cross-language reference for background processing solutions, offering a zero infrastructure background processing platform. The company is committed to enabling developers to handle business logic effectively without managing underlying infrastructure. Defer’s mission centers on offering a seamless, efficient, and scalable solution for background job processing to improve overall application performance.