This was a really fun conversation with @arena about building agents, the infrastructure around them, and what LLMs our customers are using. It's changing fast.
Arena Conversations: @petergostev sat down with @mattaitken, founder and CEO of @triggerdotdev, to discuss building infrastructure for long-running agents, including retries, API reliability, and why customers are switching frontier models faster than ever.
Watch the full
chat.agent is live on Product Hunt today (hunted by @fmerian)
It's our durable backend for AI chat apps. Every conversation gets its own machine that lives for the whole conversation, sleeps when nobody's typing, and wakes up where it left off.
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We spent the last 6 months building our take on a chat agent SDK. It’s open source and uses the stateful compute that powers our existing tasks and workflows. x.com/i/article/2086…
Star any page in the @triggerdotdev dashboard and it pins to Favorites at the top of the side menu, filtered views included.
You can also rename favorites, hide the items you never open, and drag the menu into the order you want.
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That's a wrap on our Summer Hackathon with @ClickHouseDB.
One brief: build a chat agent that changes how people work with data. 7 days, judged by our panel. Here are the winners ↓
Secrets in @infisical now sync straight into your @triggerdotdev environment variables.
Update a value in Infisical, it lands on your Trigger env vars page, and your next run picks it up. No redeploy, no CLI, no build step.
How it works ↓
We caught up with @maverickdotdev to learn how @triggerdotdev is scaling real-time observability for long-running AI workflows, what pushed the team to rethink their database architecture, and why they chose @ClickHouseDB for large-scale observability.
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The best AI agents don't just generate text. They query, process, and act.
@ClickHouseDB and @triggerdotdev are running a joint virtual hackathon to build exactly that. 7 days, EUR 10,000 in prizes, July 17 to 23.
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@elvissun@jackfriks@postbridge_@triggerdotdev Good points! We've already spun up a new US region which will be available to switch to very soon in the dashboard. We're also working on running multiple clusters per region too. (+ a lot more reliability improvements on top)
@elvissun@jackfriks@postbridge_@triggerdotdev I'm really sorry about this. us-east-1 is working normally now but DM me if you're still having issues or have any runs stuck in the EU cluster i can help unblock.
@Malaz_Madani@triggerdotdev I’m really sorry for the disruption. eu-central-1 is being spun back up right now with more resources. Latest status is always here: status.trigger.dev/incident/931451
We’ll publish a full postmortem once it’s over. Thanks for bearing with us.
Every booking on @calcom fans out into webhooks, emails, SMS, calendar APIs, Salesforce events for enterprise, billing, and fraud checks.
All of it runs on Trigger. Morgan Vernay from the Foundation team on how it works ↓
Introducing Agent Mode: Agentic AI is now measured in the Arena.
Agent Mode can do deep research, create reports, generate images, build websites, debug code, and more.
It completes more complex tasks by using tools like web search, bash in a sandbox environment, image generation, file writing, and asking follow-up questions.
Frontier models are waiting for you in Agent Mode to take on real-world tasks. GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and top open models. Test them yourself.
Trigger Cloud is now HIPAA-ready.
Healthcare and healthtech teams can sign a BAA and run tasks that process Protected Health Information on our managed infrastructure. ↓
Your tasks can now connect to private resources in your AWS VPC.
RDS, ElastiCache, internal APIs, self-hosted services. No public endpoint, no IP allowlist, no VPN.
Over AWS PrivateLink ↓
Errors: find and fix your bugs faster.
You can now quickly track down what’s causing your runs to fail with error alerts. Then bulk replay when you’ve shipped the fix.
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