iii-hq/iii

Effortlessly compose, extend, and observe every service in real-time for the first time ever.

Backend & databasesRust#agents#ai#api#backend#developer-tools

3.1 Breakout Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

About the project

iii is a Rust runtime for composing backends from workers: each service registers functions and triggers (HTTP, cron, queues, state), while the engine handles routing, observability, and runtime addition of workers.

Useful for

Compose a backend from ready workers (HTTP, queue, cron) via worker-compose.yaml and iii compose --up
Add a worker to a running system with iii trigger compose::add and immediately call its functions
Trace function and trigger execution in iii-console for debugging and observability

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

18 stars so far today, about 25 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 6 per day, so that's 4.3× as much.
Over the last two days the pace is 5.8× that of the previous week and a half.
The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
GitHub Trending Rust today: #7, +29 stars.
Recent forks include notable developers: @ksylvan (315 followers).

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 18,780
Stars in a day: 25
Forks: 1,262
Issues and pull requests: 2,172
Watchers: 91
Language: Rust
Latest release: iii/v0.24.0 · September 17, 2026
Created: January 2, 2025
Last push: September 18, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 18, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #7, +29 stars

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