--- title: How to handle background jobs and events easily with Inngest description: Inngest is an event-driven workflow engine that handles background jobs without managing servers or queues. This guide walks through integrating Inngest with... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-handle-background-jobs-and-events-easily-with-inngest-kzc31spej twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to handle background jobs and events easily with Inngest | daily.dev og:description: Inngest is an event-driven workflow engine that handles background jobs without managing servers or queues. This guide walks through integrating Inngest with... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-handle-background-jobs-and-events-easily-with-inngest-kzc31spej og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KZc31SPEj.png og:image:alt: How to handle background jobs and events easily with Inngest og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to handle background jobs and events easily with Inngest **[DigitalOcean Community](https://daily.dev/sources/do_community)** · 7 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Inngest is an event-driven workflow engine that handles background jobs without managing servers or queues. This guide walks through integrating Inngest with DigitalOcean's App Platform using SaaS Add-Ons. You'll deploy an app, configure environment variables for authentication, create an API endpoint for Inngest communication, define event-triggered functions, and test the integration. The setup enables reliable background processing for tasks like sending emails, processing files, and managing workflows with automatic scaling and retry handling. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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