Explanation

Explanation is for understanding. These pages discuss how Katalyst works under the hood and why it is built the way it is — the reasoning, the trade-offs, and the alternatives that were considered. Read them away from the keyboard; for step-by-step instructions, see the how-to guides.

• Architecture & bootstrap lifecycle — how a Katalyst application starts: the discovery scan, dependency analysis and validation, ordered instantiation, configuration loading, and route registration.
• Design decisions — why discovery is interface-driven instead of annotation-driven, why bootstrap is explicit, why a bean engine must be chosen, and how Katalyst relates to Spring Boot.