How to import 1000s of items from any E-commerce API in seconds with serverless functions

The article discusses how to import thousands of items from e-commerce APIs in seconds using serverless functions. It highlights the challenges faced while importing such large amounts of data, including synchronous execution being slow, third party API rate limiting and reliability issues, and long jobs being prone to failure. To address these challenges, it introduces Inngest, a platform that enables developers to mitigate them right in their existing codebase. The article provides an example of how to use the Inngest SDK to create a function for importing products from Shopify API and demonstrates how to break long running functions into steps with automatic retries for each step. It also explains how to use fan-out for faster parallel processing by sending events from one function to another. The article concludes by emphasizing the benefits of using Inngest, such as its framework support, serverless backends compatibility, and built-in debugging tools.