Building an event-driven queue based on common standards

Inngest has developed an event-driven queueing platform for modern development that is serverless. The company built this platform to improve the developer experience by making functions declarative, enabling complex logic, and offering multi-language support without requiring SDKs or frameworks. The system uses events as its primary contract between dispatching work on a queue and performing the work, allowing for indirection and decoupling of callsite, specific queue, and function. By embracing event-driven design, Inngest aims to create an easy-to-learn and use platform that can be locally tested and deployed with minimal effort. The company has open-sourced various components of the system and encourages feedback from users.