Deploy Rust with a MACRO with Shuttle.rs (sponsored)

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[@NoBoilerplate]

ERRATA - Sponsored video, but my thoughts on shuttle are my own, I'm genuinly very excited by a company putting my "macros are build tools" ideas into practice! - OMG cargo-binstall JUST broke - install it with `cargo install --locked cargo-binstall` until they do a release, which looks like it'll be tomorrow (github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall/issues/1094) - Actix is also supported! - it is POSSIBLE to self-host shuttle, here's the official line: "we support self-hosting but due to the manual labor that needs to happen, we advise users interested in selfhosting Shuttle to reach out to us and we'll help them get started! (at least until we have it automated)." - My Asahi linux experience has been REALLY GOOD: Everything works on the M1 Mac Mini, and I've even bought an M1 Macbook Air I was so impressed. YEAR OF ARM!

[@kilee9908]

👍

[@flogginga_dead_horse4022]

I was just going to say this install failed...

[@l3gacyb3ta21]

Asahi!

[@flogginga_dead_horse4022]

it just worked now :)

[@NoBoilerplate]

@@l3gacyb3ta21 It works!

[@mondobe]

Whoa, just got up from my Überman sleep, now I gotta tell all my HAM radio buddies about the new 0atman upload

[@NoBoilerplate]

don't forget to code your GPT in Rust!

[@drac.96]

Also, use that GPT as a voice chatbot so they can ask any questions over HAM radio 😆

[@fenkraken]

I really appreciate the transparency about being sponsored when making videos about something that might cost money. It's probably going to hurt views, but it's the only ethical thing to do, outside of refusing to take money. Keep up good work, and this stuff does look interesting.

[@NoBoilerplate]

Thank you, I was nervous about doing a fully-sponsored advertorial, and I'm glad you see that this is the most honest way to do it :-)

[@nikthechampiongr]

I mean, isn't it literally a legal requirement to disclose sponsorships?

[@NoBoilerplate]

@@nikthechampiongr I hope it is, I'm just starting out so well reminded I should look up the rules! I always do so, but I will find out what's what. I know that many creators blur the lines, and I want to be clear.

[@nikthechampiongr]

@@NoBoilerplate yea fair enough, most people just spend 5 seconds at the start or the end saying it's sponsored and check the sponsorship button when uploading the video.

[@NoBoilerplate]

@@nikthechampiongr oh woops, let me check that button 😳

[@ItsVasl]

This is how all the sponsors on youtube should be, it doesn't even seem like a sponsor.

[@kodekata]

Your content is amazing, thank you! You are pretty much the only educational tech youtuber I don't have to play at 2x.

[@NoBoilerplate]

Thank you so much!

[@1myfriendjohn]

Awesome video Tris. Coming from a GCC/AWS/Cloud Fomation/Terraform/Ansible background this will be exciting to watch going forward. I just have to improve my skills with Rust first though haha

[@NoBoilerplate]

Terrific! Well, I've got a few videos to help you there! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYqTiaqDhLitp5Y

[@erikyoung5139]

@NoBoilerplate Props on the sponsorship!! I think in one of your earlier videos you mentioned using Obsidian. I myself recently started using it and am highly curious about what your workflow in it looks like for notes/project management/task tracking/whatever else you happen to use it for.

[@NoBoilerplate]

You're gonna LOVE my next video, then!

[@erikyoung5139]

@@NoBoilerplate Awesome! All the love from Dallas.

[@angeld23]

Rust is unique in the fact that the huge amount of constant praise it gets is somehow not enough to be able to call it "overrated". It's amazing how it literally _is_ just that damn good.

[@NoBoilerplate]

Right! I don't have to sell it, I just point at the amazing features and go "SEE!?"

[@codeman99-dev]

Looks like how I'd imagine node's vercel or plarformatic working. Which is sweet. Also, the dev environment feels an awful lot like my devcontainer setup I use for rust 😁

[@NoBoilerplate]

Yeah! very devcontainer adjacent, but all config is in Rust!

[@parmesant]

Your videos are tremendously informative!

[@NoBoilerplate]

Thank you so much! that's so kind of you!

[@computerfan1079]

It's really exciting to see an ecosystem being built around Rust that cares about correctness, ease of use and efficiency. It's one of if not the only programming ecosystem that so consistently checks these boxes. Thanks for the video Tris! P.S I have finally started listening to Lost Terminal and I like it a lot!

[@NoBoilerplate]

It's a dream isn't it! And thank you so much, I'm delighted you like LT!

[@channeldsr9983]

It's remember me Bevy's ECS (but without creation on ask): if you want something - just ask!

[@wtcxdm]

Somehow off-topic but really interested in your Asahi Linux experience! Any chance to see you share more?

[@NoBoilerplate]

I'd love to chat about it on discord, but honestly there's not much to say - everything works perfectly, it's faster than osx, and everything I need just works! It's REALLY GOOD! www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/installing-asahi-linux-alpha-on-my-m1-mac-mini

[@romannasuti25]

I’m just blown away that 1. It’s already ready for daily use, just a few months ago it was very much “don’t try anything GUI or hardware sensitive” 2. The project has its own VTuber who is one of the biggest kernel contributors, especially the GPU infrastructure

[@nulled7888]

Thanks for the video 🎉

[@mg4071]

that terraform comparison is a bit stretched, but I get the idea. It seems that what we see is actually not "infrastructure as code" but "code as infrastructure" - slight but very meaningfull difference.

[@NoBoilerplate]

That's a really good way of putting it, I'll tweak the title, thanks! :-)

[@ericng8807]

No Boilerplate once again saving my Fridays, except this time the layoffs finally got me 😅

[@NoBoilerplate]

sorry to hear that buddy! Better things are coming, you'll look back and see this as a positive step in your career soon, I hope :-)

[@regexPattern]

Btw, are you running Asahi on a macbook or a desktop? I’ve been thinking about changing my laptop and love Apple hardware, but I don’t know how usable is Asahi on laptops (for things like screen brightness, audio, etc).

[@NoBoilerplate]

it's perfect on mac mini (their #1 supported platform) and on my macbook air m1 only suspend and display out isn't working for now. I'd say find a second hand machine and go for it - it's getting better every update, and is as fast as my ryzen 5 gaming machine was, but for almost no power usage. Amazing!

[@dd0n396]

i just started using shuttle about a week ago. Nice timing

[@NoBoilerplate]

Good time to pick it up I think, they're really smashing bugs and features right now. How have you found using it?

[@marekkucak6581]

Infrastructure as Rust

[@cholst1]

Will be nice to get a dashboard up and running as well! Shuttle is really cool.

[@user-qr4jf4tv2x]

rocket ,shuttle, cargo looks like we are going to mars

[@NoBoilerplate]

I prefer Earth, it's the only planet with wifi XD

[@morli5301]

It made me so happy when you sad that you use Asahi. I am using it with the hyprland desktop for half a year now and I'm amazed what the commuinty did so far.

[@NoBoilerplate]

So good right! I don't like running Apple hardware, but after 2 years there's still nothing like it on the market. I will watch Lenovo's arm thinkpad development closely.

[@DBZM1k3]

I'm a bit confused about your diagram showing shuttle-persist. What is the differentiation/link between the columns? You have AWS, Shared DB, and Persist. But I can't wrap my head around what is supposed to be the commonality between them. AWS has ways for persistance. And I don't see how AWS is comparable to a shared DB? Maybe I'm looking at this wrong?

[@NoBoilerplate]

Ah, I should have made those headings bold, sorry. There are three kinds of databases shuttle supports: aws, shuttle-shared-db, and shuttle-persist. Each of them has options, which is what the rows under each heading are. Bad table presentation, apologies!

[@DBZM1k3]

@@NoBoilerplate Totally fine! I was just trying to wrap my head around the table. I thought it was comparing them against each other and not what type of DBs it supports. Thanks for clearing up the confusion. :)

[@deerawj]

Are their any selfhosting options with shuttle. It's really hard to find info about it

[@NoBoilerplate]

I believe that's on their roadmap

[@deerawj]

@@NoBoilerplate Hope, It comes soon

[@NoBoilerplate]

@@deerawj Just heard back from them: "we support self-hosting but due to the manual labor that needs to happen, we advise users interested in selfhosting Shuttle to reach out to us and we'll help them get started! (at least until we have it automated)."

[@jacrease8880]

Have you done any videos on wasm containerisation? Id be incredibly interested as a devops engineer

[@NoBoilerplate]

Yes, extremely exciting! Not something I use yet, but for frontend wasm I'm really impressed with leptos.dev - might do a video on that soon!

[@irlshrek]

Their logo is really cool

[@NoBoilerplate]

Isnt' it!

[@EthanBradley1231]

I only ever write toy projects for my own amusement, so I'll almost certainly never use this, but I still very much enjoyed another fantastic No Boilerplate video!

[@NoBoilerplate]

Toy projects need a free easy place to host from right? I used to use heroku for these, but their free tier is no longer free, I'm pushing my little apps up to shuttle these days!

[@eineatombombe]

When you visit a app I hosted on shuttle, the first time it always returns an error about it not existing, then if you refresh it works as intended

[@joshmo3611]

Heya! Thanks for reporting this - this is a known issue and something we're working on and is because of the idle timeout. If you set your project using `cargo shuttle project start --idle-minutes 0` it'll stop this behaviour.

[@sunimod1895]

This seems very cool! What other options are out there for this type of deployment with Rust? I would love to try this out, but of course just blindly following a sponsored video is not a good habit. If this truly is the best, I'll definitely be using it in the future.

[@NoBoilerplate]

It's sponsored, but my opinions in the video are my own - I really am excited by shuttle! Try it out, is my recommendation, they promise a free forever tier, so what I'm going to do is put little toy projects I make here, instead of heroku, where I would do so in the past.

[@__sassan__]

Unrelated: can you provide some references and/or make a video about running asahi on macos? I would love to try that out

[@NoBoilerplate]

Noted!

[@charohazard]

well done an doing an ethical sponsorship its rare to see

[@NoBoilerplate]

Thank you, I feel I should have said even more about the sponsorship, but I think I did the minimum, certainly!

[@paradiseexpress3639]

rust

[@NoBoilerplate]

rust

[@nerdy_dav]

Sweet... Algorithm buried this for me. So I'm a week late. That bell is now properly set! Shuttle looks interesting. I currently host on a mix of GCP and Cloudflare.. I was going to one day rewrite my python IaC platform with rust one day. Now I might not have to ... which is nice.

[@NoBoilerplate]

Yeah! I'm excited for the same reason, they're alpha (and it feels a bit like it) for now, but I'm going to build small projects with shuttle, and watch closely their development! I can't *stand* infra lol

[@NexusNull]

So is shuttle a terraform replacement?

[@NoBoilerplate]

only kinda - it doesn't connect to aws and build your infra using the api, it's more high-level. Tf describes exactly what your infra is, whereas with shuttle, you describe what you WANT (like a postgres connection) and don't care how this happens. It's an interesting new take on it, I will watch shuttle closely

[@joshbarghest7058]

Why is this approach preferable to, say, using the Rust provider for Pulumi?

[@NoBoilerplate]

Ooh, I've not see Pulumi before, that's cool! tf in rust. Shuttle is higher level - it's not working at the layer of the cloud provider (like aws.s3) but at your application - you don't even request a postgres db, you request a pgpool. Application-layer

[@gentbinaku4458]

I wish I was as good as you at programming

[@NoBoilerplate]

We all started somewhere, and I'm not even that good. Check out Fasterthanlime, he's genuinely a genius with Rust fasterthanli.me/articles/understanding-rust-futures-by-going-way-too-deep

[@gentbinaku4458]

@@NoBoilerplate Yes I follow him a lot, kinda me despressed when I start coding

[@echobucket]

I feel like this is vendor lock-in to the extreme. This ties your application very tightly to the shuttle infrastructure.

[@NoBoilerplate]

I don't think so - the only change to your code is the attribute above your main fn, and annotations on your DB. We were just talking on my discord how easy it is to convert an existing app!

[@marekkucak6581]

You mean like kubernetes?

[@NoBoilerplate]

@@marekkucak6581 Every app is built with half an eye to the deployment platform, I'm very satisfied with how little you need to add to your code to get it working on shuttle!

[@kristianpaul7]

Is shuttle a rusty Heroku IasS?

[@NoBoilerplate]

Yes, but much higher-level than tf or cloudformation - you request application resources (dbs, and in the future they say queues and caches and stuff) rather than infra-level resources.

[@james-cucumber]

Feel like the title of this video needs some sort of indicator the video is an advertisement. The whole video is about the sponsor of the video, which means they’re not really a sponsor

[@NoBoilerplate]

very happy to add that, thank you

[@james-cucumber]

❤. It’s because I knew you’d respond in such a positive way that I left that comment. Keep up the fantastic work :)

[@NoBoilerplate]

@@james-cucumber Thank you so much, this is my first advertorial, I hope I toed the line right - I really do love shuttle, I am so grateful that my patrons allow me to turn DOWN adverts for companies I don't like! 🙂

[@hermestrismegistus9142]

I hope to someday oxidise my full web stack.

[@NoBoilerplate]

Right!? I'm going to keep a close eye on shuttle.

[@HiImKyle]

It looks cool but I'll never push my code to a server I don't own

[@NoBoilerplate]

Valid. Looks like they're building self-hosting shuttle soon!

[@silibaka-pj3pm]

Omg, how it tastes to have linux on m1?

[@NoBoilerplate]

It's exciting being on bleeding edge Arch, but otherwise TASTY! XD

[@danygagnon8446]

What I don't like about shuttle is that there's a lot of abstraction

[@NoBoilerplate]

Yeah? That could be good and bad, what do you mean?

[@danygagnon8446]

@@NoBoilerplate With Shuttle in Rust, the heavy use of macros and abstraction layers can make the codebase trickier to navigate, especially for newcomers or during debugging sessions. It sometimes masks the performance costs of operations, which is a critical aspect in Rust’s performance-centric environment. Appreciate the clean code it brings, but it's definitely a balancing act!

[@NoBoilerplate]

@@danygagnon8446 Interesting! I'm sure you're right, poorly-written macros can be tougher to debug. Could you give an example of a shuttle macro that does this?

[@felixst-gelais6722]

am i the only one that gets a compil error on the normal installation? (`cargo install cargo-shuttle`)

[@NoBoilerplate]

Make sure you're on rust stable. What's the error?

[@rotteegher39]

Cargo shuttle also supports actix-web that you forgot about.

[@NoBoilerplate]

Sure did, but I put it in the ERRATA after the first person reminded me about it after 1h of the video being up! Woops!

[@huuhhhhhhh]

Brain. melting.. Need. more. study...

[@TomasSandven]

This sounds really cool, but it feels wrong to integrate a hosting provider so deeply into the codebase 🤔

[@NoBoilerplate]

I mean, every project depends on the aws sdk, right? This is lighter than that - it's vanilla axum, modified by a single macro call.

[@TomasSandven]

@@NoBoilerplate I suppose that's true. It's just such a foreign concept to me. Hopefully it remains easy to spin up test servers in other environments, such as a CI pipeline or demo environments (not hosted by shuttle).

[@joshmo3611]

I think your concerns are valid - it would normally feel wrong (and rightly so!) if the code additions meant that migrating vendor (if you wanted to) were made unnecessarily difficult. However, since the code changes simply just require adding macros and minor changes to what the main function returns, if you wanted to move away from shuttle you simply need to remove the macros (and deps) as required and then use the regular method for getting a webserver up with your web framework of choice.

[@NoBoilerplate]

@@TomasSandven Extremely valid concern. My guess is that because it all works locally fine, on your test CI you could test it with just docker installed, or even decoupled with a local db. Very alpha software, of course! They do have a self-hosted option, again very alpha.

[@JeffHanke]

Seems like you could put all the shuttle-specific code in a separate file that wraps your standard main etc.

[@youvegoattobekittenme6908]

Hi, I enjoy your content and accept that sponsored videos need to happen to keep things going, however, would you be able to provide more transparency about the terms of the sponsorship?

[@NoBoilerplate]

Of course, what would you like to know? I hope you are satisfied with the [sponsor] tag in the title, and me mentioning it right in the intro. This is my first sponsored advertorial, so I'm very open to tweaking things for the future for better transparency. I'm extremely lucky to be mostly supported by my patreons, so I only have to partner with companies I really like! :-)

[@youvegoattobekittenme6908]

​@@NoBoilerplate I'm very glad how clear it was made that the content was sponsored, but I am wondering how much the sponsorship influenced the direction of the video. Was the agreement under the terms of, if you like our product you could make a video talking about it and we'll sponsor it. Or was the video made because it was sponsored? I don't doubt you believe the tool can be helpful, but I am always skeptical of overly positive demos of products.

[@NoBoilerplate]

​@@youvegoattobekittenme6908 I've updated the pinned ERRATA comment to clarify this: Shuttle reached out with a sponsorship offer, but the opinions in the video are mine. I have recommended shuttle before, and really love the product. I should have said these words in the video, and if I do something like this in the future, I will say them.

[@youvegoattobekittenme6908]

@@NoBoilerplate thank you, that's good to hear

[@newtonchutney]

Woahh.. Just came to bed.. After a partially succeeded deployment.. Sad stories of a guy who works in a traditional company.. ☠️

[@NoBoilerplate]

oof!

[@jeffg4686]

This is amazing, but it will take our jobs... (now that they are doing LLM integration)

[@NoBoilerplate]

That's one way to think about it. I proposed a different way in my GPT video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZ3Tg2SDeZaIpa8

[@fortwentiblazeit4177]

I don't like it, I'm a proponent of one tool for one use-case instead of using one thing for everything.

[@NoBoilerplate]

Fair enough, what would you use to deploy? Heroku?

[@fortwentiblazeit4177]

@@NoBoilerplate It's a tricky question. For work: I'd use something that's used throughout the organization and/or has a good documentation if a tool for deployment doesn't exist and preferably something already stable. For personal use: depending on what I feel like learning :D

[@TheJayman213]

I don't get any of this. f*cking web dev...

[@NoBoilerplate]

I used to be suspicious of web development. I'm much happier now, backend web is GREAT!

[@paradiseexpress3639]

This seems super useless

[@NoBoilerplate]

Why so?

[@DuongLe-em4dg]

More option means more solution to me. Thus, it doesn't seem useless at all to me

[@NoBoilerplate]

@@DuongLe-em4dg Right! I don't understand.

[@flogginga_dead_horse4022]

uh wut?

[@khanra17]

Why artificially deepen the voice? And whistlesing ssss? Why does everyone want an ugly voice like fireship?

[@NoBoilerplate]

Firstly, fireship wishes he had my voice. (and I wish I had everything else he has!) Secondly, I am an audio producer, this is how I sound, I am just capturing my voice correctly using high-quality studio equipment. The sibilance you mention (sssss) is undesirable, and I continuously tweak my setup, you're not the only person who reported that on this video, it's already fixed in future ones, thank you.