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Allows you to write long-running background jobs in your codebase with zero config, solving the serverless timeout problem elegantly.
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Long-running jobs (AI generation, video processing) that would timeout on Vercel
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Developers who want to write background jobs as code without infrastructure
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Reliable webhooks and event-driven architectures
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