by francesca on 7/12/23, 4:11 PM with 35 comments
by hobofan on 7/12/23, 4:50 PM
I'm not sure when it started, but I feel like there has been an recent increase of "for every dev" or "for everyone" in marketing copy of tools like these. Though, if you look into it for just a minute it's not a polyglot tool that at the core exposes e.g. a REST API that could be talked to in any language, but a "library + SaaS" for a very specific subset of developers (though not a small one).
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To the founders/team: Sorry for the rant - you are not the only ones doing it. Congrats on the funding!
by vikp on 7/12/23, 4:39 PM
The press release is unnecessarily hyperbolic, which turned me off, though:
> Deploying new jobs to production also requires tedious configuration of cloud infrastructure which often requires a handoff to another team or individual. Often weeks of developer time is spent on basic workflows, before anything complex like idempotency is handled. Using Inngest, developers can write, test, and deploy complex workflows to production in hours, not weeks — all without touching infrastructure or queues.
Using something like Dramatiq [1] with Redis, writing a background job takes minutes, and can be deployed alongside an existing Python web app. There are probably JS equivalents.
I think Inngest could be a useful service (I might have used it if I'd seen it a few weeks ago), but the comparison felt off for me - it made me feel like this wasn't solving a real problem.
by upmostly on 7/12/23, 6:22 PM
It makes absolute sense to "event everything".
Also, the dev-ex is incredible. Especially in conjunction with RedwoodJS.
Well done, chaps!
by radiospiel on 7/12/23, 4:46 PM
by danfarrelly on 7/12/23, 4:18 PM