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Trigger.dev v3

Trigger.dev v3

Background jobs with long-running support

Trigger.dev v3 brings long-running background jobs up to 24 hours, deploy anywhere, and a new architecture for AI agent workloads.

Panel Reviews

The Builder

The Builder

Developer Perspective

Ship

Long-running jobs up to 24 hours solve the AI agent execution problem. The v3 architecture is built for modern workloads.

The Skeptic

The Skeptic

Reality Check

Ship

v3 addresses the key limitation — jobs that need to run for hours, not just seconds. Essential for AI agent tasks.

The Futurist

The Futurist

Big Picture

Ship

Long-running, durable background jobs are the infrastructure AI agents need. Trigger.dev v3 delivers exactly this.

Community Sentiment

Overall1,710 mentions
69% positive20% neutral11% negative
Hacker News345 mentions

24-hour max duration finally makes it viable for real ML training pipelines

Reddit480 mentions

Switched from Inngest and the DX is noticeably better for complex job graphs

Twitter/X710 mentions

v3 deployment architecture is way more reliable than v2 was at scale

Product Hunt175 mentions

Deploy-anywhere approach means no vendor lock-in for background job infrastructure