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Hyrex

The COLD Task Framework

Y CombinatorSummer 2024ActiveB2BEngineering, Product and DesignAIOpsDeveloper ToolsCloud ComputingInfrastructure

What they do

Problem

Developers need a reliable way to run and manage asynchronous background tasks at scale without building complex custom queuing and orchestration infrastructure.

Solution

Hyrex is a task orchestration framework for Python and TypeScript that uses PostgreSQL or Hyrex Cloud as a durable task queue to execute and monitor asynchronous tasks.

Who it's for

Software developers and engineering teams building applications that require background job processing and task orchestration.

Founders

Mark Dawson
Founder

Software Engineer. Second time founder. Currently focused on AI + Cloud infrastructure.

Trevor Reed
Founder

Co-founder at Hyrex, building the COLD task orchestration framework. Former Mars Rover driver at JPL with over 1km of drive distance on Mars and software engineer at Google processing worldwide YouTube data.

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