Surely there's tools to bundle python apps? I'm not as familiarized with the python ecosystem, but with node you can use browserify or webpack to bundle an app

Surely there's tools to bundle python apps? I'm not as familiarized with the python ecosystem, but with node you can use browserify or webpack to bundle an app into a single JS file, or pkg [0] to generate a single executable. Some languages have even more powerful tools for that sort of deployment. One of the best examples I've seen is distillery [0], an Elixir package which allows for hot upgrades. That means you can just copy a single a file and upgrade without having to take anything down. [0] https://github.com/zeit/pkg https://github.com/zeit/pkg [1] https://hexdocs.pm/distillery/getting-started.html https://hexdocs.pm/distillery/getting-started.html