Getting started with Vercel Workflows

Vercel Workflows is a fully managed platform for building long-running backends and production-ready AI agents in TypeScript.
Modern async systems are hard to maintain. Queues, retries, and state management sprawl across services, making scale and troubleshooting complex. Vercel Workflow brings durability directly into your application code - and runs it for you.
In this session, we'll show how two directives - "use workflow" and "use step” - turn ordinary TypeScript functions into resilient, observable, long-running processes. You'll learn the core primitives, how the event log handles retries and recovery without re-execution, and how workflows live inside your existing app with no rearchitecting required.
We'll also walk through converting an existing async function or AI agent into a durable, resumable workflow in minutes.
What you'll learn

• How to turn any async function into a durable, resumable workflow with two directives

• How to build production-ready AI agents with built-in retries, observability, and state

• How to replace queues, workers, and schedulers with plain TypeScript

Event Details

Date: April 16 2025

Time: 12:00PM - 12:45PM PT