Show HN: StepKit, an open and cross-platform durable execution standard • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: StepKit, an open and cross-platform durable execution standard

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Post by goodoldneon » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 7:18 PM UTC

dot_louis wrote: post #9

Looks neat, how to you guys compare to upstash workflows ?

We'll release an Upstash Workflows adapter soon! StepKit is ultimately just an in-code API that lets you define workflows in a backend agnostic way. We want you to define workflows that can run in Upstash, Inngest, Cloudflare... really anywhere!

Re: Show HN: StepKit, an open and cross-platform durable execution standard

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Post by homanp » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 7:33 PM UTC

Long time inngest user, this looks very interesting.

Re: Show HN: StepKit, an open and cross-platform durable execution standard

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Post by dimitropoulos » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 7:52 PM UTC

with all the hype around durable execution... what makes it difference from job queuing solutions like BullMQ or Agenda.js that rely on DLQ on top of Redis or Mongo? is it just a DX thing?

Re: Show HN: StepKit, an open and cross-platform durable execution standard

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Post by wittydeveloper » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 8:05 PM UTC

dimitropoulos wrote: post #13

with all the hype around durable execution... what makes it difference from job queuing solutions like BullMQ or Agenda.js that rely on DLQ on top of Redis or Mongo? is it just a DX thing?

You can see durable execution as a combination of persistent state and queues (simplified example). With regular queues, the state is spread across many places from messages, runtime and external storages where the primary value is the reliability of the message processing and simple error management. Durable brings more advanced error management and end to end reliability with persistent state.

Re: Show HN: StepKit, an open and cross-platform durable execution standard

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Post by shcallaway » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 2:42 AM UTC

Wow, this is great. I have been using Inngest for over a year now and really like the APIs you guys have created for defining step functions / event handlers. I'm very glad to see that this API is now open-source so that it can be adopted more broadly!

Re: Show HN: StepKit, an open and cross-platform durable execution standard

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Post by arthberman » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 9:29 AM UTC

Interesting, will dig this!

Re: Show HN: StepKit, an open and cross-platform durable execution standard

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Re: Show HN: StepKit, an open and cross-platform durable execution standard

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Post by itajenglish » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 1:38 PM UTC

The API gods have struck gold again! I love this new approach. Really looking forward to seeing how extensions extend the core SDK functionality, especially those created by the OSS community. I also looking forward to seeing how the invoking of Inngest workflows directly in your business logic and getting the result synchronously will materialize. This will be a huge unlock in handling error prone workflows.