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Respan Launches Open-Source Rust AI Gateway with Plugin Architecture

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YC-backed startup Respan has launched an open-source Rust-based AI gateway featuring a fully decoupled, plugin-centric architecture. By isolating providers, protocols, and features like smart routing into plugins, it addresses the scalability limitations of monolithic gateways, allowing developers to extend functionality without modifying the core.

LATEST/YC-backed startup Respan has launched an open-source Rust-based AI gateway featuring a fully decoupled, plugin-centric architecture. By isolating providers, protocols, and features like smart routing into plugins, it addresses the scalability limitations of monolithic gateways, allowing developers to extend functionality without modifying the core.

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  1. Hacker News AIT2·68 pts
    • Adopts a 'small core + public interfaces' design where all components (providers, MCP, voice/image modalities) exist as plugins
    • Born from the team's experience managing over 100k lines of wrapper code on LiteLLM that led to upgrade failures, aiming to avoid redundant development
    • Enables users to implement custom API key management, routing logic, and security filtering by developing plugins without altering the gateway core