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Inngest — turn events into durable step workflows with retries and persisted state

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Stars
5,857
Primary language
Go
License
Not determined
Repository last updated
Sep 20, 2026

Overview

Inngest is a workflow orchestration platform that triggers functions from events, breaks work into persisted steps, and handles retries, waits, concurrency, throttling, debouncing, batching, and related execution concerns.

Features and best fit

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Persist step state and retry from failures

Business logic can be split into steps whose outputs and errors are persisted so failed work can be retried or resumed by the platform.

Sources: [2][3]

Control long-running workflows with events, queues, and flow controls

Event APIs, wait-for-event, cancellation, concurrency, rate limiting, prioritization, debouncing, and batching can be composed into durable workflows.

Sources: [2][3]

For background work that needs more than a basic queue

It fits payments, data processing, AI agents, webhooks, and long-running jobs where durable execution should remain close to application code.

Sources: [2]

Separate the server/CLI license from SDK licensing

The server and CLI use SSPL with delayed Apache publication, while SDKs are Apache-2.0. Self-hosted server licensing should not be inferred from SDK licenses.

Sources: [2][5]

Official sources

  1. [1]inngest/inngest repository(2026-09-21)
  2. [2]Inngest README(2026-09-21)
  3. [3]Inngest documentation(2026-09-21)
  4. [4]Inngest self-hosting documentation(2026-09-21)
  5. [5]Inngest SSPL / Apache future license(2026-09-21)
Supplemental curator note

The server and CLI use SSPL-1.0, with the README describing delayed open-source publication (DOSP) under Apache-2.0 in the future. The TypeScript, Python, Go, Kotlin, and other SDKs are Apache-2.0. The server repository should therefore not be represented as ordinary Apache-licensed OSS and is stored as `NOASSERTION`.

Try it in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Get the source

    git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/inngest/inngest.git
  2. 2

    Enter the repository

    cd inngest
  3. 3

    Check the official steps

    Continue with the commands in the README Installation, Quick Start, or Getting Started section.

    find . -maxdepth 1 -iname 'README*' -exec sed -n '1,220p' {} \; -quit
Check the official README

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GitHub Topics

  • cli
  • event-driven
  • serverless-functions
  • queues
  • serverless
  • event-driven-architecture
  • workflow-engine
  • workflows
Stars
5,857
Forks
358
Watchers
19
Open issues
55
Contributors
52
Primary language
Go
License
Not determined
Repository last updated
Sep 20, 2026
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