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Introducing Gati β€” The Zero-Ops Backend Framework for the AI Era

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πŸš€ Introducing Gati β€” The Zero-Ops Backend Framework for the AI Era

Build faster. Break nothing. Deploy everywhere.

Modern backend development shouldn’t feel like wrestling infrastructure, gluing libraries, debugging traffic flows, or worrying whether deploying a new API will break production for your customers.

Yet β€” it still does.

For startups, solo developers, agencies, and even mid-sized teams, backend engineering is increasingly fragmented:

  • Too many moving parts
  • Too much DevOps overhead
  • Too many β€œgotchas” with deployment
  • Too much risk when shipping updates
  • Too much manual work for scaling, versioning & observability
  • Too much pressure to integrate AI, queues, modules, caching, security… manually

Gati was born to change that.

Gati (ΰ€—ΰ€€ΰ€Ώ) means speed, motion, progress β€” and the framework embodies exactly that:
A backend that evolves, scales, and adapts automatically, letting developers focus on what they actually love: writing logic and building great products.

Welcome to a new era of backend development.

🌟 What is Gati?

Gati is a TypeScript-first, fully modular, self-managed backend runtime designed for an AI-accelerated world.

It combines:

  • a flexible runtime
  • an auto-versioning deployment engine
  • a unified module & plugin ecosystem
  • a powerful real-time playground
  • and several developer experience innovations…

…into a single, elegant platform.

You write simple TypeScript handlers.
Gati handles everything else.

No YAML.
No pipelines.
No infra chaos.
No downtime.
No backward-incompatible deployments.

Just code β†’ deploy β†’ evolve.

🧠 Why Gati?

1. Zero-Ops Backend

Forget DevOps ceremonies.
Gati takes raw source code and automatically:

  • watches your code
  • analyzes changes
  • generates schemas, manifests & types
  • spins up versions
  • manages rolling updates
  • drains old API versions
  • deploys with zero downtime
  • updates your cloud infrastructure
  • syncs everything with your Gati Cloud account

A single gati deploy is all you need.

2. Timescape β€” API Versioning Solved Forever

Classic versioning is painful:

  • Breaking changes break clients
  • You must maintain v1, v2, v3… manually
  • Deprecation is slow or impossible
  • Rollouts risk production downtime

Timescape changes the rules.

Timescape automatically:

  • detects breaking changes
  • creates versioned handler copies
  • handles traffic per-version
  • drains old versions safely
  • generates transformers for backward compatibility
  • decommissions versions when no clients use them
  • logs evolution visually in the playground

Your API evolves smoothly, safely, endlessly β€” without breaking existing clients.

This is backend evolution done right.

3. Local & Global Context β€” Clean, Functional DX

Gati provides a beautifully simple handler signature:

export async function handler(req, res, lctx, gctx) {
  // your logic goes here
}
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  • lctx = per-request state & lifecycle hooks
  • gctx = global modules, caches, DBs, queues & plugin APIs

No decorators.
No magic.
No framework-heavy abstractions.

Just functional, readable, TypeScript-native code.

4. Modular Architecture β€” Polyglot by Design

Everything in Gati is a module:

  • database clients
  • queue drivers
  • AI models
  • caching layers
  • external API connectors
  • WASM functions
  • Node modules
  • Docker images
  • even binary executables

Modules are isolated, polyglot, typed, and hot-swappable.

You can share modules through the upcoming Gati Registry β€” and monetize them.

5. Plugin Ecosystem β€” Extend the Runtime

Plugins can:

  • add new types, validators & transformers
  • define new module clients
  • inject before/after hooks
  • integrate with AI tools
  • enhance observability
  • add new cloud providers
  • add authentication frameworks
  • add gateways, queues, caches, databases

And the best part:
Anyone can publish plugins β€” making Gati a community-driven ecosystem like npm, but purpose-built for backend development.

6. Gati Playground β€” See Your Backend

Backend development has always been dark and opaque.
Gati brings first-class visual observability:

βœ” API Studio

  • Test APIs
  • Run load/stress tests
  • Generate TS/JS SDKs
  • Manage mock datasets
  • Explore versioned APIs
  • See schema diffs
  • Replay request flows

βœ” Network Mode (2D Visualization)

See real-time traffic flowing through:

  • ingress
  • version routers
  • handlers
  • modules
  • plugins
  • queues

With latency, health & throughput highlighted visually.

βœ” Lifecycle Mode (3D Tracing)

Walk through a single request in 3D:

  • every handler
  • every hook
  • every module call
  • every internal event
  • snapshots & state transitions
  • debug gates to pause mid-flight

It’s like Chrome DevTools…
but for distributed backend systems.

7. Gati Registry β€” The Backend App Store

Gati Registry (coming soon) will host:

  • Modules
  • Plugins
  • AI models
  • Agents
  • Starters & templates
  • Versioned manifests
  • Pricing tiers
  • Marketplace & revenue-sharing

Imagine:

β€œnpm, Docker Hub, HuggingFace, and Terraform registry β€” combined, but designed specifically for backend apps.”

That’s the Gati Registry.

8. AI-Enabled Backend Development

Gati is built for the AI era:

  • AI agents can be plugged into runtime
  • Agents can observe requests and act
  • Models can run inside modules via WASM or containers
  • Auto-migration tools can assist Express.js/NestJS projects
  • Playground integrates tracing + LLM explanations
  • Auto-generated transformers for backward compatibility

Gati is not just AI-friendly β€”
it is AI-native.

πŸ’‘ Who is Gati for?

πŸ§‘β€πŸ’» Solo Developers

Ship production backends with zero DevOps.
Focus entirely on product & users.

πŸš€ Startups

Move fast without breaking production.
Iterate APIs without fear.

🧩 Agencies / Service Companies

Build and deploy dozens of backends reliably and consistently.

⛏️ Enterprise Teams

Gain visibility, reliability, stronger contracts, and multi-cloud portability.

🧬 AI Developers

Deploy AI inference modules, agents, and models without infrastructure overhead.

πŸ—ƒοΈ Open Source Contributors

Help build core modules, plugins, models β€” or earn on the marketplace.

πŸ”₯ What makes Gati different?

Most frameworks solve "backend functionality."
Gati solves backend evolution, observability, and zero-ops deployment.

Feature Gati Express NestJS FastAPI Firebase Supabase AWS CDK
Zero-Ops Deployment βœ” ❌ ❌ ❌ βœ” βœ” ❌
Automatic API Versioning βœ” ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
Auto Schema Diff / Transformers βœ” ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
Polyglot Modules βœ” ❌ ⚠️ ❌ ❌ ❌ βœ”
Visual Network Playground βœ” ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
Unified Request Lifecycle βœ” ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
Plugin Ecosystem βœ” ⚠️ βœ” ⚠️ ❌ ❌ ❌
AI-Native Integrations βœ” ❌ ⚠️ ⚠️ ❌ ❌ ❌

Gati is not just another backend framework.
It is a backend development platform.

🌍 The Future of Gati

Here’s what’s coming next:

πŸ—οΈ Gati Dev Cloud

Deploy anywhere β€” Gati Cloud, AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean β€” using a single login experience.

🧱 Gati Registry

Modules, plugins, AI models, agents, templates β€” free and commercial.

πŸ› οΈ Gati Studio

Official desktop IDE plugins
VSCode integration
Schema autocomplete
Playground built-in
Real-time debugging

🧬 AI-assisted migration tools

Auto-migrate Express, NestJS, Django, FastAPI into Gati handlers.

πŸ”— Multi-runtime backend

Core runtime available in:

  • Node.js
  • Rust
  • Go

Thanks to language-neutral contracts.

🏁 Conclusion β€” A Backend That Evolves With You

Gati is designed to make backend development:

  • Fast
  • Safe
  • Fun
  • Observable
  • Modular
  • AI-powered
  • Zero-Ops

It lets you ship without fear, iterate faster than ever, and build production-grade systems without an army of DevOps engineers.

Gati’s philosophy:

β€œDevelopers should write logic, not infrastructure.”

If that resonates with you β€”
welcome to the next generation of backend development.

More is coming soon.
Stay tuned β€” and stay fast. ⚑

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