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Background Worker Infrastructure

Introduce a dedicated worker service to run long-running jobs more reliably and cost-effectively than serverless.

Move long-running and resource-intensive background jobs out of Vercel/Inngest into a dedicated worker application to reduce compute costs, avoid serverless time limits, and improve reliability.

Focus is on supporting workloads like reporting and batch processing in a more scalable and predictable way.

Outcomes:

Reduced spend on serverless/background job execution
No timeouts on long-running jobs
More consistent execution of critical background tasks

Status

In Progress

Lead

Oliver Soar

Teams

Platform, Releaf UK

Project updates

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ollie

8 May 2026

On Track

Open

We have started moving cron jobs to Trigger.dev due to the flakiness of Inngest. Easier implementation and avoids us having to manage infra of the runner, queue and other components if we were to run our own with Google Cloud/Upstash for example.

Issues

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2 total

In Progress

RLF-6379 - Move further reminder functions over to Trigger.dev
Reviewed

Done

RLF-6377 - Move prescription reminders to Trigger.dev
Done