Posts by Shuttle
MasterAI proved you donβt need a massive DevOps team to handle enterprise loads. π
Challenge: Build a data-heavy AI RPG with indie resources.
Solution: A managed backend that scales.
The Stack: π¦ Rust π± Flutter π Shuttle
The Result:
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10k daily interactions
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Zero infra complexity
If you're not using Claude Skills, you're missing out on your software development workflow.
We built a custom Shuttle deployment skill and put it to work. Here's what makes Skills different from MCP servers and slash commands π
We broke down the hidden costs of IaC and why it's time to stop paying the "YAML Tax."
Read the full breakdown here π
www.shuttle.dev/blog/2025/1...
The difference is wild.
Old way: Manually wiring up VPCs and Subnets. New way: #[shuttle_shared_db::Postgres]
The compiler analyzes your code and provisions exactly what you need.
No drift. No YAML.
There is a better way: Infrastructure FROM Code (IfC).
Don't write scripts to describe your infra. Let your application code declare it.
With @shuttle_dev, you don't write config files. You write one annotation.
The "Modern" Way to provision a DB: β vpc.tf β security-groups.tf β rds.tf β variables. tf
Thatβs 300+ lines of config for one resource.
If you miss one dependency? You drift. You break prod. You spend Friday night debugging.
51% of developers spend >20% of their time managing infra.
For a 10-person team, that is ~$300k/year in lost productivity.
We are paying senior engineers $150k+ to debug HCL syntax and fight Terraform state locks instead of building products.
Unpopular opinion: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is becoming technical debt. π©
We convinced ourselves that writing 500 lines of YAML to spin up a microservice was "modern."
It isn't. Itβs a distraction.
Here is why the era of IaC might be ending π§΅π
π From GitHub to live in seconds.
Connect your repo, push your code, and Shuttle does the rest #flow
Just build β push β deployed.
Try it out over the weekend and let us know what you think π¦
Rust and MCP link
π Build and deploy your own MCP Server with Streamable HTTP.
Your users donβt need installs or setup - they connect to your live server in the cloud and get real-time updates instantly.
Link to guide below π
π Weβve raised $6M to build the AI Platform Engineer - making backend infra as easy as writing code with AI.
Backed by YC, GFC, the former GitHub CEO, the founder of Segment, and leaders from OpenAI, Deel & Confluent.
Full post β www.shuttle.dev/blog/2025/10...
Access our blogs so you can get started straight away here:
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Read about what this means for our developers community here: www.shuttle.dev/blog/2025/10...
Shuttle has launched a new GitHub Integration feature
Big news #Rust devs! π
We have just launched Shuttleβs #GitHub Integration.
No setup. No CLI. Just connect your repo and go live - right from your browser.
Perfect for automating your deployment flow.
π Link below
Connect. Push. Deploy.
P.S. Weβd love to see what you build
We just published an article on building a Discord summarization bot with DeepSeek and Rig!
Perfect for easily understanding previous cross-channel conversations and improving team collaboration (or just remembering what your friend said that one time).
Read more: www.shuttle.dev/blog/2025/01...
Tim McNamara (author of Rust in Action) released a podcast episode with the one and only Jon Gjengset - author of Rust for Rustaceans and the crate decrusting series on Youtube.
Check out their discussion on creating & maintaining high quality Rust codebases: timclicks.dev/podcast/reli...
Merry Christmas from all of us at Shuttle! π
@shuttle.dev Thanks for a fun Christmas Code Hunt! Here is my final bonus task Cargo.lock sprinkles! Fun ending. #cch24 #rustlang
We just published an article on improving your observability by setting up a status page with Better Stack π
Check it out below:
Picture of a guy with a party hat in the corner saying "They don't know I could've been writing Rust right now" with other people dancing in the room
rust meme #rustlang
Interested in getting to know Rust traits a bit better?
Check out our guide on learning advanced Rust traits & generics, as well as some well-known use cases for things like function pointers in traits!
#rust #rustlang by @shuttle.dev
www.shuttle.dev/blog/2024/04...
Going live in 5 minutes with @joshmo-dev.bsky.social to solve some Christmas Code Hunt Rust programming puzzles with Q&A!
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Benchmark comparison
π¦ Stakpak rewritten their backend in Rust
- From Typescript to Rust
- increased processing performance 900x
stakpak.dev/blog/2024/12...
#rustlang #programming
More "new" programs should be written in Rust than a rewrite