Traditional queues weren't built for today's workflows
Inngest delivers everything your current queues lack — modern features, built-in orchestration, and zero overhead
Your message queue isn't delivering for you
Traditional queuing systems handle only the basics, leaving you to tackle the difficult parts. You've likely experienced the frustration of dealing with some or all of these common challenges:
Transform your queueing system with Inngest's durable execution
Inngest is more than a queue—it's a durable execution platform designed to solve the challenges of traditional queuing systems. Managing complex workflows with multiple queues, workers, and cron jobs increases complexity and the risk of errors.
With Inngest, workflows are modeled in code as functions and steps, simplifying the process. Built-in scheduling, batching, throttling, and multi-tenancy eliminate the need for managing infrastructure, offering a modern, efficient solution for reliable, scalable workflows.
Traditional Queue Systems
Inngest
The complete queuing solution you've been looking for
Easily add concurrency, prioritization, debouncing, throttling, and multi-tenant fairness to any function, without any implementation. Inngest’s native flow control provides a comprehensive, out-of-the-box queuing experience, allowing you to focus more on building your product, and less on managing systems.
Throttling and rate limiting
Use throttling and rate-limiting to manage throughput across your functions. Handle spikes of traffic and ensure limited resources are protected, applying limits at a global or even user specific level.
Fair, multi-tenant concurrency
Built-in multi-tenant support allows for account and user-level management and concurrency in a single line of code. Ensure fair resource distribution and eliminate noisy-neighbor issues to scale efficiently across multiple clients or environments.
Declarative cancellation
Automatically cancel functions whenever events happen in your system — without API calls, recording job IDs, or storing state.
Step function orchestration
Simplify workloads that typically span multiple queues and workers by writing step functions that define multi-stage workflows directly in code. All business logic and context stays in one easy to understand function, not spread across multiple workers.
Debouncing
Prevent wasted work and costs by debouncing functions automatically.
Native batch processing
Combine multiple requests into a single function for high-volume, low-cost execution - no code or infrastructure changes required. Improve performance, reduce overhead, and simplify workflows.
Comprehensive built-in observability
Monitor workflow performance and address issues as they arise, allowing you to troubleshoot quickly, identify bottlenecks, and continuously optimize your system - without relying on external tools.
Sleep, scheduling, and cron
Built-in scheduling enables you to pause or schedule jobs for minutes or weeks into the future. Additionally, create cron jobs along side your queued jobs by setting a cron expression trigger.
Dynamic Prioritization
Push important jobs to the front of the queue whilst still ensuring fairness and QoS for other users, with a single line of code.
Write functions in any language that works for you.
TypeScript
Python
Go
Run functions in your own infrastructure, on serverless, servers, or edge.
Vercel
Netlify
AWS
GCP
Azure
How queuing works with Inngest
From simple background jobs to high-volume queuing workloads.
Priority
Dynamically set the priority of select jobs without the need for separate queues.
Batch processing
Efficiently process large volumes of data to save costs and improve performance.
Add steps for durability
Steps are executed once and cached. Errors are automatically retried and cached steps are skipped.
const dynamicPriorityFn = inngest.createFunction(
{
id: 'sync-account-data',
priority: {
// If the event is triggered during onboarding, run it ahead of functions scheduled 120 seconds ago
run: 'event.data.isOnboarding ? 120 : 0'
}
},
{ event: 'integrations/slack.sync' },
async ({ event, step }) => {
// your code
}
)Learn more about Inngest
Discover why Inngest is the ideal queuing solution for modern development teams.
5 Reasons Why Your Queue is Slowing You Down
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Read articleBasic example: Simple background job
A guide on how to create the basic, queued background job and trigger it with the Inngest SDK.
View documentationFlow control configuration
Learn about the powerful options including throttling, concurrency controls, rate limiting, debounce and priority.
View documentationChat with our team today
Speak with a solutions engineer to learn if Inngest is right for your queuing and orchestration needs.