Sylwia Vargas - Background Jobs 101: Building Reliable Apps with Inngest - React Miami 2024

Learn how to build reliable apps with Inngest, a reliability layer for background jobs, and discover how it simplifies the process of building complex workflows and reduces manual intervention.

Key takeaways
  • Background jobs are essential for building reliable applications
  • Queues are great for data-intensive processes, but can become complex and difficult to manage
  • Ingest is a reliability layer that can simplify the process of building reliable applications
  • Ingest can be used to schedule tasks in the future and provide retries for failed tasks
  • Ingest is language agnostic and can be used with Python, Go, and TypeScript
  • Ingest provides a dashboard for monitoring and debugging background jobs
  • Background jobs can be used to build complex workflows and reduce the complexity of an application
  • Ingest can be used to streamline tasks such as sending emails and adding users to a mailing list
  • Ingest provides a way to recover from failures and reduce the need for manual intervention
  • Ingest can be used to build a more reliable and efficient application
  • Using Ingest can simplify the process of building a reliable application and reduce the need for manual intervention.
  • Ingest provides a way to debug and manage background jobs, making it easier to build a reliable application.
  • Ingest can be used to build a more reliable and efficient application, and can simplify the process of building a reliable application.