Respan launches an open-source Rust AI gateway built around plugins
AIRespan, a Y Combinator W24 company, has launched an open-source Rust AI gateway in which providers, protocols, and features are all plugins around a small core. The team says its earlier gateway, built on LiteLLM, grew past 100,000 lines of wrapper code and that a routine LiteLLM upgrade caused connection errors, prompting a redesign.
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The post explains why the team moved from patching LiteLLM to a plugin-based core, giving a concrete case for the architecture choice.
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Original title: Launch HN: Respan (YC W24) – Open-source Rust AI gateway built around plugins