When building AI agents and workflows, developers often face a core challenge: how to reliably execute background tasks that may take a long time, require retries, involve queue management, and must have observability. Traditional serverless platforms like AWS Lambda and Vercel have strict execution time limits, which are often fatal constraints for AI applications.
Trigger.dev is an open-source TypeScript platform designed specifically to address this problem. It allows developers to build and execute AI workflows, providing unlimited execution time for long-running tasks, automatic retry mechanisms, queue management, observability, and elastic scaling features. Whether building complex AI agents or handling resource-intensive background tasks, Trigger.dev provides reliable infrastructure support.