An introduction to the Workflow Development Kit
summary
Open source Workflow Development Kit claims to turn multi-function serverless pipelines into readable async code that can suspend, rehydrate and resume without consuming resources. Demos build a birthday‑card app, a Slack collaborative story bot and a Mandolin prior authorization agent that processes healthcare workflows supporting $10B in drugs yearly; observability comes from an event log recording inputs, outputs and retries. Runtime support includes Next.js, Nitro and Hono, uses queues for durability and reports ~1M workflows/day at Vercel.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:57Hand-rolled workflow problems
- 7:27Workflow Development Kit
- 10:01Building workflows with steps and webhooks
- 13:29Sleep and multi-step workflows
- 15:58Mandolin workflow example
- 25:40Closing and next steps
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