Inngest
Inngest is a durable workflow platform that raised $6.1M in funding, offering serverless queues, background jobs, and workflows with zero-infrastructure management.
Funding and Investment
Inngest has successfully raised $6.1 million in funding. The fundraising round was led by the prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). This financial backing is a testament to the company's potential and future growth prospects within the serverless and workflow management industry.
Durable Workflow Platform and SDKs
Inngest offers a durable workflow platform designed to provide reliable and scalable background job management. The platform includes Software Development Kits (SDKs) that facilitate the integration of various functionalities into applications. This system caters to developers who need robust solutions for managing serverless queues, background jobs, and workflows.
Zero-Infrastructure Management
Inngest's zero-infrastructure management feature allows businesses to implement serverless workflows without the need for extensive infrastructure setup. This feature ensures that users can deploy their workflows efficiently across serverless environments, servers, or edge computing setups with ease and minimal maintenance overhead.
Integration and Compatibility
Inngest is compatible with various frameworks such as Next.js, Express, Remix, Cloudflare Pages, RedwoodJS, and Fastify. This broad compatibility makes it easier for developers to incorporate Inngest into their existing technology stacks. Inngest is also designed to operate seamlessly on any cloud environment, providing flexibility and scalability.
Developer Tools and Features
Inngest provides several developer-centric features including automatic retries for increased reliability, real-time observability metrics, full logs and history for debugging purposes, and custom failure handlers. Additionally, developers can batch jobs to reduce system load, use declarative job cancellation, and pause functions to incorporate additional input. The platform supports TypeScript and has planned support for other programming languages such as Go and Python.