Inngest Durable Workflows

Build reliable background jobs and scheduled workflows with Inngest. Generates event-driven functions with automatic retries, cron triggers, step functions, and durable execution that survives crashes.

This skill helps you build background workflows with Inngest. It generates event-triggered functions, implements multi-step workflows with automatic checkpointing, configures cron schedules, handles retries with exponential backoff, and manages concurrency limits. Works seamlessly with Next.js, Remix, and Hono.

When to use

Use when you need reliable background processing, scheduled jobs, event-driven workflows, or multi-step pipelines that need to survive server restarts and deploy seamlessly on serverless.

Examples

Email drip campaign

Build a multi-step email sequence with delays

Create an Inngest workflow that sends a welcome email, waits 3 days, sends a tips email, waits 7 days, then sends an upgrade prompt

Data sync pipeline

Build a reliable data sync with retries

Build an Inngest function that syncs data from our API to a warehouse every hour with retry logic and error notifications