What I've Been Working On: November
Updates from November 2025
Work
November was a productive month at Inngest, continuing to push forward on the extended tracing and observability features I’ve been working on.
Pull Requests
- refactor: improve userland trace view
- fix: less complex GraphQL query for nested spans
- refactor: store AppID and FunctionID on userland traces
- feat(metadata): add AITokenExtractor
- refactor(otel): bump OTEL deps && tweaks for compatibility
- feat: add Anthropic OTEL instrumentation
- feat(metadata): add step.update.metadata
A big theme this month was metadata and AI observability. The AITokenExtractor and Anthropic OTEL instrumentation work is laying the groundwork for better visibility into AI-powered Inngest functions. I also continued refining the extended traces experience in both the core engine and the TypeScript SDK.
Personal Projects
I also started working on a news reader project on the side, as an example of how someone could use the Inngest Ruby SDK that I’ve been toying with building.
Reviews
I stayed active in code review, approving PRs across the Inngest ecosystem including work on span durations, trace readers, span metadata extractors, and Python SDK releases.