Background Processing

Background Processing covers worker tasks, queue providers, scheduled work, runtime adapters, and per-task permissions. Start here when work should run outside the request path but does not need the durable saga state model.

Overview & Concepts Workers and queues

Worker tasks consume queued work with provider and runtime choices kept inside the leaf.

Quickstart Polyglot transform

Run a task step from the ERP Sync tutorial.

How-To Queue, KV, and cron

Create the queue and scheduler loop used by background work.

How-To Choose a queue provider

Select the provider that fits your local and deployed runtime.

How-To Run a polyglot task

Execute work in a non-TypeScript task runtime.

API Reference workers, queue, cron

Generated symbols for task, queue, scheduler, and watcher packages.