Upstash QStash: Serverless Background Jobs Without the Infrastructure Pain

Upstash QStash: Serverless Background Jobs Without the Infrastructure Pain Background jobs are the unsexy problem that breaks every serverless-first project. Your Vercel Function times out at 10 seconds. Your email needs to send. Your webhook needs to retry. You end up with a Redis queue on a $20/month droplet just to run background work. QStash is Upstash's answer: an HTTP-based message queue built for serverless. What QStash Does QStash sits between your app and your background work endpoints: