Groq Events & Async Patterns

Overview

Build event-driven architectures around Groq's inference API. Groq does not provide native webhooks, but its sub-second latency enables unique patterns: real-time SSE streaming, batch processing with callbacks, queue-based pipelines, and event processors that use Groq as an LLM classification/extraction engine.

Prerequisites

• groq-sdk installed, GROQ_API_KEY set
• Queue system for batch patterns (BullMQ, Redis, SQS)
• Understanding of Server-Sent Events (SSE) for streaming

Instructions

Step 1: SSE Streaming Endpoint

import Groq from "groq-sdk";
import express from "express";

const groq = new Groq();
const app = express();
app.use(express.json());