How to Deploy Gleam Apps Anywhere

[@aronjacobson5403]

Awesome video, Isaac!!

[@IsaacHarrisHolt]

Thank you!

[@talideon]

4:13 - while it's not necessarily going to have a huge impact on the image size, it's good hygiene to use a disposable builder image, do any kind of prep work you need there, and then use COPY to copy anything you need to your final image. It means you don't end up with useless layers and the possibility of leaking credentials (if you need to hit some artifact repository that expects credentials, for instance) is greatly reduced.

[@IsaacHarrisHolt]

You're right, thanks!

[@MattRobinsonDev]

Great video as always Isaac :)

[@IsaacHarrisHolt]

Thank you!

[@Fik0n]

Great video as always!

[@IsaacHarrisHolt]

Thank you!

[@lucdecafmeyer2771]

Noticed you've been doing a lot of Gleam lately, which has been cool to see! My question is if Gleam can stack up to a language like Go that builds to a single binary in terms of ease of deployment or ease of use (not that I'm particularly familiar with either 😅)

[@IsaacHarrisHolt]

It's not quite as easy as languages with static binaries (yet!), but as I try to show in the video, it's really not hard to do. Most Gleam apps are relatively self-contained.

[@rodrigohmoraes]

​@@IsaacHarrisHolt are you familiar, by any chance, with the Gig project? A 3rd party Gleam compiler (still in the very early stage) that compiles it to C, thus allowing you to turn your project into a single, self-contained binary.

[@IsaacHarrisHolt]

I'm not! I'll have to look into it. There have been a few attempts at native Gleam compilers so far, but nothing official

[@anotherelvis]

Great video.

[@IsaacHarrisHolt]

Thank you!

[@Hasan10-oh7vl]

Love ittt!! You need a video editor bro? I can do a sample video :)

[@IsaacHarrisHolt]

Feel free to reach out by email!

[@devyb-cc]

patiently waiting to be more mature while learning its basic.

[@IsaacHarrisHolt]

You don't need to wait! There's production software being written in Gleam :)

[@devyb-cc]

@@IsaacHarrisHolt if i have lots of time yeah 😂

[@VideoGerm]

Have you considered collaborating with Louis on a paid Gleam course, then promoting it through tech influencers like ThePrimeagen and Theo who both loved the language? It could be an effective way to support the language now that Gleam has lost its primary sponsor.

[@IsaacHarrisHolt]

I think it's been considered but not yet discussed properly

[@zakariabenhadi4637]

Nice !

[@IsaacHarrisHolt]

Gleam is dope

[@diegoguraieb8282]

It would be nice to know how to deploy to a cluster of BEAM nodes..if that makes sense..

[@IsaacHarrisHolt]

Yes! It's in the pipeline, but I wanted this video to cover more of the basics

[@diegoguraieb8282]

@@IsaacHarrisHolt thank you! , great gleam videos!

[@shamashel]

@@IsaacHarrisHolt patiently waiting for this

[@ahuman32478]

Gleam or Rust?

[@IsaacHarrisHolt]

They're not comparable. The two languages have totally different goals

[@codingwithjamal]

@@IsaacHarrisHoltwhats gleams core goal?

[@IsaacHarrisHolt]

Gleam is about creating type safe systems that scale, but keeping things simple while doing so. Simplicity is at the core of Gleam, and at the heart of every decision the core team makes. Rust, on the other hand, is more focused on memory safety and performance, but it does this at the cost of simplicity. They accept a high learning curve and low initial developer velocity in return for very high performance, low overhead code. 99% of the time, you probably don't need Rust's performance. Often, people pick it for stuff just because they like the type system or whatever, but they're taking on a lot of burden they don't necessarily need. Gleam offers a very similar type system, but because it's garbage collected, it's a lot more lenient and easier to write.

[@driedurchin]

@@IsaacHarrisHoltbesides the speed, the strict guarantees around failures helps with critical systems that need it be high reliability.

[@IsaacHarrisHolt]

With Rust or Gleam? Gleam runs primarily on the BEAM VM, which was designed for fault tolerance in telecommunications. Gleam has very similar error handling to Rust, and actually it has better disaster recovery