Motia
Unified backend framework for APIs, jobs and AI agents
Motia is an open-source backend framework that unifies APIs, background jobs, workflows and AI agents into a single event-driven system with a built-in observability UI. It is self-hosted via Docker or as a Node app.
Key features
- Unified backend primitives
- Event-driven steps
- Built-in observability
- Polyglot steps
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Mature project with 18.6k GitHub stars
- Written in Rust
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