Defer

Zero infrastructure background processing platform.

Y CombinatorWinter 2023InactiveB2BEngineering, Product and DesignDeveloper ToolsSaaS

What they do

Problem

Node.js teams need a fast way to run slow or asynchronous work outside the user request path without building and operating their own background job infrastructure and tooling.

Solution

A managed, Vercel-like background processing platform for Node.js that provides APIs and a dashboard for background jobs, CRONs, and workflows.

Who it's for

Node.js developers and engineering teams building web applications who need background job processing.

Founders

Charly Poly

Founder

Charly was a tech lead at Algolia, where he built a background jobs processing platform that contributed to $12M of new revenue. Charly enjoys speaking at international conferences (React Europe 2019) and wrote many reference articles on TypeScript and GraphQL relayed by recognized international newsletters such as GraphQL or TypeScript Weekly. After working in open-source, he now focuses on enabling Node.js developers to build reliable async flows with Defer.

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