Why Ductape
Ductape is a framework for defining backend logic such as database operations, API calls, message queues, notifications, and jobs as reusable, environment-agnostic components. Write your logic once, configure it for any environment, and run it anywhere without rewriting for each provider or deployment.
Backend features rarely consist of a single API call.
A checkout might charge a customer, update inventory, create an order, publish an event, and send a notification. A KYC flow might call several providers, store results, retry failures, and update your database.
Normally, all of that logic gets scattered across services, SDKs, environment configuration, and provider-specific code.
Ductape gives that logic a runtime.
Ductape lets you define backend capabilities - API calls, database operations, queues, storage, notifications, and jobs - and compose them into reusable backend features.
You write the logic once. Ductape handles the configuration, credentials, execution, retries, observability, and environment-specific wiring.
What Ductape gives you
Compose backend features
Combine APIs, databases, queues, storage, and other capabilities into complete application features without rebuilding the underlying integrations each time.
Keep business logic separate from infrastructure
Your feature logic doesn't need to know where credentials live, which environment it is running in, or how a particular provider is configured.
Change infrastructure without rewriting features
Move between providers or environments while keeping the feature logic intact.
Run consistently across environments
The same backend components can run in development, staging, and production with environment-specific configuration managed separately from your code.
Get execution built in
Ductape provides the runtime concerns backend features need: retries, timeouts, error handling, logging, metrics, tracing, and dependency coordination.
How Ductape works
Ductape organizes backend systems into a few composable primitives:
- Apps: API integrations whose endpoints become callable backend functions.
- Resources: Databases, message brokers, storage, notifications, and other infrastructure.
- Actions: Operations performed against apps and resources.
- Features: Backend workflows composed from actions.
- Environments: Development, staging, production, and other runtime contexts.
You define these components in code. Ductape connects them to the right infrastructure and provides the runtime required to execute them.
Built for developers - and the agents building software for them
Ductape's primitives give developers a structured vocabulary for backend systems.
That same structure makes backend infrastructure easier for AI coding agents to understand and operate: instead of generating arbitrary integration code for every feature, an agent can work with defined backend capabilities and compose them into application logic.
What you can build
- Checkout and payment flows
- Order and inventory systems
- KYC and verification pipelines
- Notification systems
- Data synchronization
- ETL and ingestion features
- Provider integrations
- Event-driven application features
- Scheduled and asynchronous jobs
Build the backend feature. Let Ductape handle the machinery underneath it.