> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://filament.getgalaxy.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction

> What Filament is and how its pieces fit together.

Filament moves data from sources to sinks with full, incremental, and CDC
replication. Every batch is integrity checked on both the read and write
side, and interrupted runs resume from checkpoints. It is written in Go, and
its major pieces are pluggable: connectors, the data store, and the event bus
are interfaces with swappable implementations.

## How it's put together

Filament is three components over a data store and an event bus.

* **`server`** serves the API and web UI and owns connections, pipelines, and run requests.
* **`control-plane`** dispatches requested runs and tracks run state.
* **`worker`** executes a single run from extraction to verified write.

Read more about how these fit together in [Architecture](/pages/guides/concepts/architecture).

## Where to go next

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="play" href="/pages/guides/get-started/quickstart">
    Get infra, the control plane, API server, and UI running locally.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Architecture" icon="sitemap" href="/pages/guides/concepts/architecture">
    Understand the server / control-plane / worker split.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Connectors" icon="plug" href="/pages/connectors/overview/introduction">
    See what Filament can read from and write to today.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Deploy on Kubernetes" icon="dharmachakra" href="/pages/guides/deployment/kubernetes">
    Install the Helm chart against your own Postgres and NATS.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

<Note>
  Filament is pre-1.0. APIs — including the interfaces documented here — may
  still change.
</Note>