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---
title: "Writing tasks: Introduction"
sidebarTitle: "Introduction"
description: "Tasks are the core of Trigger.dev. They are long-running processes that are triggered by events."
---
Before digging deeper into the details of writing tasks, you should read the [fundamentals of tasks](/v3/tasks-overview) to understand what tasks are and how they work.
## Writing tasks
| Topic | Description |
| ------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Logging](/v3/logging) | View and send logs and traces from your tasks. |
| [Errors & retrying](/v3/errors-retrying) | How to deal with errors and write reliable tasks. |
| [Wait](/v3/wait) | Wait for periods of time or for external events to occur before continuing. |
| [Concurrency & Queues](/v3/queue-concurrency) | Configure what you want to happen when there is more than one run at a time. |
| [Versioning](/v3/versioning) | How versioning works. |
| [Machines](/v3/machines) | Configure the CPU and RAM of the machine your task runs on |
| [Idempotency](/v3/idempotency) | Protect against mutations happening twice. |
| [Reattempting & Replaying](/v3/reattempting-replaying) | You can reattempt a task that has failed all of its attempts. You can also replay a task with a new version of your code. |
| [Notifications](/v3/notifications) | Send realtime notifications from your task that you can subscribe to from your backend or frontend. |
| [Rollbacks](/v3/rollbacks) | Rollback code inside a task when errors happen to provide transactional guarantees. |
| [Using APIs](/v3/using-apis) | How to use APIs from within your tasks. |
| [Trigger filters](/v3/trigger-filters) | Prevent unwanted filters where the payload doesn't match your filter. |
| [Middleware](/v3/middleware) | Middleware can wrap the task run function. |
| [Automated tests](/v3/automated-tests) | Write automated tests in code. |