Open sourcing Inngest

The text discusses the challenges faced by developers while working with background jobs in complex systems. It mentions that there are two typical options for handling background jobs - using a job system or building it yourself using a message broker, both of which require significant configuration and maintenance efforts. The author then introduces Inngest, an open-source project aimed at improving the developer experience while working with background jobs. They plan to extract core components from Inngest's platform and embed them in their CLI as the new Inngest DevServer. The text also outlines the problems that Inngest is designed to solve, such as boilerplate code, configuration management, vendor lock-in, and deciding where to run the code. It further explains the approach taken by Inngest, which includes simplified message or event publishing, platform agnosticism, serverless consumers, runtime agnosticism, and support for step functions. The author also discusses the benefits of building Inngest in the open, such as allowing developers to self-host and benefit from community contributions. Finally, they share their roadmap and invite developers to contribute to the project by joining their Discord server.