How to pronounce Inngest

Inngest is most commonly pronounced "in jest" (/ɪnˈdʒɛst/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

Inngest is a durable-execution / workflow-orchestration platform for running reliable step functions and orchestrating AI workflows on serverless, servers, or the edge. The name is a stylized spelling of the verb "ingest" (it ingests events), so it is said in-JEST — /ɪnˈdʒɛst/ — with a soft g (dʒ) and stress on the SECOND syllable, identical to "ingest." The extra n is purely cosmetic and does not change the sound. Devs seeing the doubled "nn" often say INN-guest or force a hard g, which is what makes it non-obvious. The ingest pronunciation is a well-supported community inference from the obvious wordplay; no official creator statement on pronunciation was found.

Source: Inngest — official GitHub repository

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