Looking back on 2025
As another eventful year is coming to an end, I'm continuing my annual tradition of reflecting on 2025. Last year was marked by significant change: I joined Inngest in April 2024, which has come to be one of the best decisions I've ever made.
This year, I got to work on numerous challenging and exciting projects, including rewriting nearly all of the internal systems ingesting billions of events and powering hundreds of millions of workflow runs every day. We've raised a $21m Series A earlier this year and are facing the best (tons of happy customers with amazing use cases) and worst (scaling challenges) effects of product market fit.
This August, I traveled to London to speak at GopherCon UK about the lessons I learned migrating mission-critical systems with zero downtime. This was my first talk in years, so I was reasonably nervous leading up to it. Judging from the feedback I got by attendees walking up to me after the session, I did better than I anticipated and I'm looking forward to return for another round next year!
In October, we held our annual team offsite in Boston. It was inspiring to see how much the team has grown this year (we more than doubled in size), and I can't wait to see everyone in person again soon. I also got to travel to San Francisco on numerous occasions and I always return more energized than I left.
As we're entering the last days of 2025, I'm recharging and looking ahead on to 2026. I'm confident that this will be the best year yet.