🚀 Introducing Gati — 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 — 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 "gotchas" 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 (गति) means speed, motion, progress — 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.

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🌟 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 → deploy → evolve.

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🧠 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 — 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 — without breaking existing clients.

This is backend evolution done right.

3. Local & Global Context — Clean, Functional DX

Gati provides a beautifully simple handler signature:

export async function handler(req, res, lctx, gctx) {
   // your logic goes here
}

• 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 — 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 — and monetize them.

5. Plugin Ecosystem — 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 — making Gati a community-driven ecosystem like npm, but purpose-built for backend development.

6. Gati Playground — See Your Backend

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

✔ API Studio

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

✔ Network Mode (2D Visualization)

See real-time traffic flowing through:

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

With latency, health & throughput highlighted visually.

✔ 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 — 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:

"npm, Docker Hub, HuggingFace, and Terraform registry — 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 — it is AI-native.

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💡 Who is Gati for?

🧑‍💻 Solo Developers

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

🚀 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.

🗃️ Open Source Contributors

Help build core modules, plugins, models — or earn on the marketplace.

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🔥 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	✔	❌	❌	❌	✔	✔	❌
Automatic API Versioning	✔	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Auto Schema Diff / Transformers	✔	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Polyglot Modules	✔	❌	⚠️	❌	❌	❌	✔
Visual Network Playground	✔	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Unified Request Lifecycle	✔	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Plugin Ecosystem	✔	⚠️	✔	⚠️	❌	❌	❌
AI-Native Integrations	✔	❌	⚠️	⚠️	❌	❌	❌

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

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🌍 The Future of Gati

Here's what's coming next:

🏗️ Gati Dev Cloud

Deploy anywhere — Gati Cloud, AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean — using a single login experience.

🧱 Gati Registry

Modules, plugins, AI models, agents, templates — free and commercial.

🛠️ 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.

🔗 Multi-runtime backend

Core runtime available in:

• Node.js
• Rust
• Go

Thanks to language-neutral contracts.

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🏁 Conclusion — 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:

"Developers should write logic, not infrastructure."

If that resonates with you — welcome to the next generation of backend development.

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Get Started Today

# Create a new Gati project
npx gatic create my-app

# Start development
cd my-app
pnpm dev

# Deploy to Kubernetes
gati deploy dev --local

Resources

• 📖 Documentation: krishnapaul242.github.io/gati
• 💻 GitHub: github.com/krishnapaul242/gati
• 📦 npm: @gati-framework
• 💬 Discussions: GitHub Discussions

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More is coming soon. Stay tuned — and stay fast. ⚡

Get Started • Documentation • GitHub

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