Building Metrics with TimescaleDB
11/29/2023
How we built better observability into Inngest
Python errors as values: Comparing useful patterns from Go and Rust
11/8/2023
Safer error handling, inspired by Go and Rust
Accidentally Quadratic: Evaluating trillions of event matches in real-time
5/15/2024
Building the expression engine that powers ephemeral event matching.
Eliminating latency in AI workflows: How to avoid the durability tradeoff
2/25/2026
Every durable execution system adds some latency between steps. It's the tax we pay for reliability. Here's how to eliminate it.
Build Durable AI Agents with Inngest Steps
3/17/2026
Use Inngest's step primitives to build resilient, observable AI agents without a heavyweight framework.
User Built: How Windmill Built a Durable Internal Ops Agent with Inngest
3/17/2026
How Windmill replaced brittle n8n flows with a durable internal ops agent—Pim—powered by Inngest Connect, context-first design, and a focused toolset.
How We Cut Redis Read Operations by 67% with a Stateful Caching Proxy
3/10/2026
We reduced pressure on our sharded Redis cluster by introducing a gRPC proxy that caches immutable run state and routes consistently by run ID.
Your Agent Needs a Harness, Not a Framework
3/3/2026
Agent runtimes don't need yet another framework — they need a durable, event-driven harness that connects tools, memory, and models on production-grade infrastructure.
Sharding high-throughput Redis without downtime
7/23/2024
Read about how we rolled our new sharded infrastructure out to production without a millisecond of downtime and how it improved Inngest's overall performance.
The Principles of Durable Execution Explained
12/10/2024
Learn what Durable Execution is, how it works, and why it's beneficial to your system.
step.ai: the quickest way to build reliable AI applications on Serverless while saving on compute
12/10/2024
Combining step.run() and step.ai.infer() is the best toolset to build reliable AI applications on Serverless while saving on compute.
October 2024 queue retrospective
11/7/2024
Summary of the queue related issues in October 2024
How we built Insights AI with Inngest
1/15/2026
How we shipped Insights AI, what we learned about building agentic features, and why dogfooding your own infrastructure actually works.
Durable Execution: The Key to Harnessing AI Agents in Production
2/19/2026
AI Agents introduce multiple points of failure that traditional retry logic cannot handle. Durable execution provides the automatic state persistence, retries, and workflow resumption that make agents production-ready.
How to Fix Next.js AI Route Failures (Without Restarting from Zero)
3/9/2026
Add step-level durability to your Next.js AI routes so failures don't restart from zero—each step is independently retryable and memoized.
How we built a fair multi-tenant queuing system
1/22/2024
Building the Inngest queue - Part I
The Constraint API: Scaling flow control beyond millions of RPS
2/23/2026
How we extracted constraint enforcement into a dedicated service to unlock lower latency, greater scalability, and flow control for Durable Endpoints.
October 2025 incident report
10/24/2025
Summary of the incident that caused function execution to fail on October 24, 2025
Explicit APIs vs Magic Directives
10/24/2025
Comparing explicit APIs vs magic directives for workflows, queues, and durable execution. Or, directives as an antipattern.
5 Lessons Learned From Taking Next.js App Router to Production
5/5/2023
What did we learn from building and shipping our new app with the Next.js 13 App Router?
Typescript For Apps Vs Typescript For SDKs
3/13/2026
I thought I was good at TypeScript. Refactoring the Inngest SDK proved I was okay at best—and that changed how I think about types forever.
Reducing local dev time by 83%: Why we migrated off Next.js
1/30/2026
We care a lot about developer experience. But it's hard to build beautiful experiences for customers, while grinding through 10-12 second page load times. Here's how—and why—our team migrated from Next.js to Tanstack Start.
Incident report for August 16, 2024 - Function execution outage
8/16/2024
A full report on the incident that caused function execution to fail on August 16, 2024 UTC.