Welcome to iii
The way to unify your backend and not think about it.
iii (pronounced "three eye") is a backend engine that unifies your entire infrastructure—APIs, background jobs, workflows, queues, state, and everything else—into a single, durable runtime.
The engine model creates a "Modular Monolith" that scales like microservices but removes their architectural complexity which makes your application feel and behave like a cohesive whole no matter where it is running.
It creates this experience by transforming every backend operation into two core concepts: Call and Register. These concepts are the mechanism by which most architectural complexity is removed.
The Paradigm Shift
React revolutionized the frontend with the Component and Context. Rust revolutionized systems programming with Ownership and Borrowing. iii hopes to do the same on the backend with Call and Register.
Getting Started
The best way to understand iii is to try it:
1. Install iii
iii is in alpha
iii is under very active development. For now please install it directly from GitHub with:
curl -fsSl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iii-hq/iii/main/install.sh | sh
Get the toolchain installed on your machine.
curl -fsSL https://install.iii.dev/latest.sh | sh2. Verify installation
Check that iii has installed correctly with the following command. It should return a version number.
iii --version