Tony Holdstock-Brown

Tony Holdstock-Brown serves as the CEO and founder of Inngest, a platform designed to help developers deploy reliable applications without the complexity of managing infrastructure. The company recently secured $6.1 million in funding led by Martin Casado and Yoko Li from Andreessen Horowitz, with additional follow-on investments from GGV, Afore Capital, and Guillermo Rauch. Inngest enhances application development by combining event streams, queues, and durable execution into a unified reliability layer, thereby investing heavily in reliability, flow control, and flexibility. The platform has introduced several innovative features, including real-time observability metrics, first-class recovery tooling named Replay, and a REST API for enhanced control over running workloads. It also offers multi-level virtual queues, fine-grained concurrency controls, built-in prioritization, rate limiting, debouncing, and event batching controls. Furthermore, Inngest has released Python and Go SDKs, supporting cross-language function invocation and tools for zero-downtime cloud migrations. Looking ahead, Tony plans to continue investing in key areas and expand his team over the next year.