Hatchet – open-source, event-based workflow engine

What it does

🪓 An orchestration engine for background tasks, AI agents, and durable workflows - hatchet-dev/hatchet

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey HN - over the past few months, I’ve been working on Hatchet, which is a workflow engine meant for event-driven applications. Workflows are triggered by user-defined events (along with schedules and cron jobs). It bundles a web UI for observability and has several integrations built out (Sentry, OpenTelemetry…

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