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How Decent Land simplified Web3 development

Using Rust and Shuttle to eliminate off-chain infrastructure complexity and accelerate WeaveVM development

"We were spending precious dev time on infrastructure instead of building features that actually mattered... Then we found Shuttle, and it won on every single DevOps point."Rani from DecentLand

Decent Land's flagship product WeaveVM provides permanent data storage and high-throughput data availability for blockchain networks, settling 100k daily transactions and securing over $1.5B in total value across networks like Metis, Humanode, Avalanche, and Dymension. As a Web3 infrastructure company, Decent Land needed reliable off-chain auxiliary services to support their on-chain protocol - and that's where Shuttle comes in.

30-minute Migration
Migration from Heroku to Shuttle with minimal complexity in only 30 minutes
Zero Infrastructure Management
No SSL certificates, secret management, database provisioning, or infra costs
Focus Shifted to Core Mission
Development team can focus on building features that actually matter

The Challenge: Infrastructure Overhead Distracting from Core Mission

While WeaveVM (their on-chain product) was performing well, Decent Land needed supporting off-chain infrastructure - indexers, APIs, ETL pipelines, and data availability layers. They started with Heroku for deploying these auxiliary services, but as their needs scaled, the platform became a significant bottleneck to their growth. The team was facing several critical problems:

Constant friction in the deployment process, killing development momentum

Dependency mismatches causing version conflicts and compatibility issues

SSL certificate management that absorbed valuable development time

Infrastructure complexity that distracted from building features that actually mattered

For Web3 teams like Decent Land, running off-chain auxiliary infrastructure reliably is an orthogonal skillset that, while important, distracts from their core mission of building robust on-chain protocols. This infrastructure complexity was becoming a significant barrier to their development velocity.

Choosing Shuttle for Rust-Native Off-Chain Infrastructure

Decent Land chose Shuttle to deploy their off-chain supporting infrastructure with seamless Rust integration and simplified deployment process. The migration was remarkably quick, taking less than 30 minutes using Shuttle's annotation system on existing services.

The team's approach leveraged Shuttle's core capabilities for their off-chain infrastructure:

Native Rust deployment eliminating container complexity

Integrated database management with automatic PostgreSQL provisioning

Built-in SSL certificates that worked out of the box

Secrets management with secure configuration handling

Streamlined deployment flows using Shuttle's annotation system

Decent Land's CTO Rani and the team are Rust experts, so translating that expertise to off-chain infrastructure deployment was natural and liberating. The team found that Shuttle's Rust-focused approach eliminated the deployment complexity they experienced with other platforms.

Achieving Streamlined Development and Deployment

Since migrating to Shuttle, Decent Land has transformed their off-chain infrastructure workflow and achieved significant operational improvements:

Development Velocity: The backend team now ships off-chain Rust microservices — APIs, ETL pipelines, cron jobs — without breaking a sweat. Their supporting services scale seamlessly alongside their on-chain WeaveVM protocol.

Rapid Experimentation: The team can quickly spin up new off-chain services across dev, staging, and production environments, enabling faster iteration and testing of their Web3 infrastructure.

Superior Support Experience: When they need support, they get it directly through the team on Discord, a nice contrast to layers of impersonal support bots.

"Shuttle's nice DevX reduces the development and deployment time and lets us focus on the thing that matters: the code," Rani said.

Technical Implementation

The technical implementation leverages Rust's performance characteristics combined with Shuttle's deployment simplicity for off-chain services. While WeaveVM handles the on-chain permanent storage and data availability, Shuttle deploys the supporting infrastructure such as indexers and auxiliary services that complement the main protocol.

The architecture eliminates the dependency on complex deployment flows for off-chain infrastructure management, making Web3 development more accessible to teams that want to focus on building robust on-chain protocols rather than managing DevOps complexity for their supporting services.

Get Started with Shuttle

Decent Land's success demonstrates how Shuttle enables Web3 teams to focus on their core on-chain mission while maintaining reliable, scalable off-chain infrastructure. The combination of Rust's performance and Shuttle's deployment simplicity allowed them to eliminate off-chain infrastructure complexity and accelerate their Web3 development.