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Use cases

Reliable and fast Algolia indexing

Update your Algolia index in real-time or in batches.

How to handle Stripe webhooks

Receive webhooks reliably on your Next.js app

Generate embeddings for Supabase Vector

Crunch your application’s data with Defer to generate OpenAI embeddings

Realtime Workflows updates with Supabase Realtime

Send real-time updates to your users for long-running workflows

Sending time-sensitive notifications

How to send a magic-link sign-in email with Defer.

Process audio files with OpenAI Whisper

Process large audio files with ffmepg and OpenAI Whisper

Build a scalable Shopify app

Integrate with Shopify to drive thousands of sales, at scale.

How to run Puppeteer on Node.js without limitations

Run Puppeteer with custom resources and long-running executions.

Schedule emails with Resend

Leverage JSX with Defer to schedule rich emails

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Patterns

Offload your API

Keep your API resilient and performant with background jobs

Create and Manage Reminders

Build Todo reminders with cancellable scheduled executions

Onboarding workflow

How to orchestrate your jobs with workflows

GraphQL Bulk actions

A useful pattern for long-running GraphQL Mutations

Build a CRON that scales over time

Leverage CRONs to send weekly recommendations

Setup a monorepo

Use Turborepo, Yarn, PNPM & NPM workspaces with Defer

API rate limiting

Configure concurrency to tackle 3rd party API rate-limiting issues

Enable FIFO executions processing

Process executions in a guaranteed sequential order.

Handle common error causes

Leverage the Defer Console filters to narrow down error causes.

Working with files

See how to pass files to your Background functions

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