3 guides covering real-world deployment patterns, gotchas, and integration decisions for Trigger.dev.
Trigger.dev is a developer-first background job SDK for TypeScript. Jobs are defined as plain TypeScript functions — no queues to configure, no Redis to manage. The platform handles retries, scheduling, concurrency limits, and a real-time job monitoring dashboard.
Most real-world AI workflows aren't a single background task — they're pipelines. You embed a document, store the vectors, notify a webhook, then send a summary email. Each step can fail independently...
Background jobs are inevitable the moment your AI app needs to do anything that takes longer than a few seconds — sending emails, processing uploads, calling slow APIs, or running LLM chains. Trigger....
Trigger.dev's cloud is the easiest starting point, but for teams with strict data-residency requirements or high job volumes, self-hosting gives you full control. As of v4, the self-hosted platform is...
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