Simplify your queues with Inngest, the modern Kafka alternative

Build reliable event-driven workflows with a streamlined developer experience

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Kafka is a common choice for distributed streaming, powering everything from event-driven architectures to real-time data pipelines. It's scalable, reliable, and has a massive community. Because of this, teams looking for resilient, scalable messaging often lean into Kafka for their queuing needs, assuming it can seamlessly handle these workloads too. But the truth is—Kafka wasn't really designed for traditional queuing.

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