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Trigger.dev

trigger.dev

TypeScript-first background jobs. Serverless, long-running tasks, event-driven.

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Inngest

inngest.com

Event-driven function platform. Queues, scheduling, retries, step functions.

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Temporal

temporal.io

Durable execution platform. Workflow orchestration at scale. Open-source core.

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QStash

upstash.com/docs/qstash

Serverless message queue by Upstash. HTTP-based, works with any serverless runtime.

BullMQ

bullmq.io

Redis-backed job queue for Node.js. Open-source, battle-tested.

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