Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Gerhard demonstrates a simple web application deployment workflow:
- First, he runs a local build using yarn (takes ~10 seconds)
- Then packages the build into a container using his local Docker setup
- He then compares this with a remote Docker build on Namespace's infrastructure.
Gerhard then showcases Namespace's preview environment capabilities:
- Using nsc run creates temporary deployment environments in seconds (~7 seconds)
- These environments get unique URLs for testing
- By default, previews require authentication, but can be made public with --ingress *=noauth
- Preview instances automatically get cleaned up after a default duration (4 hours)
Some highlights discussed:
- Extremely fast container builds in the cloud
- Quick preview environment creation
- Namespace's infrastructure optimizes for throughput
- Upcoming features like deferred starting (scale-to-zero) that only spins up when someone accesses the URL
The conversation includes interesting implementation details:
- Namespace uses advanced caching for fast instance creation (~50-100ms for cloning cache volumes)
- Deployments use global capacity planning rather than region selection
- Preview environments support various protocols including TCP, TLS passthrough, and TLS termination
If you want to watch the full conversation, as a 4k movie, go to 📺 makeitwork.tv/fast-infrastructure and join as a member.
Alternatively, you can listen to the conversation at 🎧 https://makeitwork.fm/12
There are 2 other videos that go well with this one:
youtube.com/watch?v=Um77B1RiLaI
youtube.com/watch?v=BSD-E8I7JNE
Gerhard demonstrates a simple web application deployment workflow:
- First, he runs a local build using yarn (takes ~10 seconds)
- Then packages the build into a container using his local Docker setup
- He then compares this with a remote Docker build on Namespace's infrastructure.
Gerhard then showcases Namespace's preview environment capabilities:
- Using nsc run creates temporary deployment environments in seconds (~7 seconds)
- These environments get unique URLs for testing
- By default, previews require authentication, but can be made public with --ingress *=noauth
- Preview instances automatically get cleaned up after a default duration (4 hours)
Some highlights discussed:
- Extremely fast container builds in the cloud
- Quick preview environment creation
- Namespace's infrastructure optimizes for throughput
- Upcoming features like deferred starting (scale-to-zero) that only spins up when someone accesses the URL
The conversation includes interesting implementation details:
- Namespace uses advanced caching for fast instance creation (~50-100ms for cloning cache volumes)
- Deployments use global capacity planning rather than region selection
- Preview environments support various protocols including TCP, TLS passthrough, and TLS termination
If you want to watch the full conversation, as a 4k movie, go to 📺 makeitwork.tv/fast-infrastructure and join as a member.
Alternatively, you can listen to the conversation at 🎧 https://makeitwork.fm/12
There are 2 other videos that go well with this one:
youtube.com/watch?v=Um77B1RiLaI
youtube.com/watch?v=BSD-E8I7JNE
