# Serverless Triggers: How and Why

DevFeed: [Serverless Triggers: How and Why](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/serverless-triggers-how-and-why-5790.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/serverless-triggers-how-and-why>)

Author: Tony Holdstock-Brown

Published: 2024-11-06T17:43:25Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [data-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-processing.md>), [Workers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/workers.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [human feedback](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/human-feedback.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agent.md>), [cloudflare-workers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloudflare-workers.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/concurrency.md>), [data-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-processing.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [human-feedback](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/human-feedback.md>), [integration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/integration.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [replication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/replication.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>), [workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflow.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes using Neon Logical Replication with Inngest to trigger serverless functions from database changes. It highlights AI workflows with retriable and cached steps, concurrency and throttling controls, human feedback, and ETL-style processing.

## Source excerpt

Neon is a true serverless database, with connection pooling and automatic scaling. To add to the serverless stack, we recently co-launched the Inngest integration with Neon, which enables you to leverage Neon's Logical Replication to trigger Serverless functions (Vercel Functions...