I'm surprised at how bulky the app is. I feel like it should be relatively portable, and be able to run without too much memory (I have to bump my VPS to at lea

I'm surprised at how bulky the app is. I feel like it should be relatively portable, and be able to run without too much memory (I have to bump my VPS to at least 1GB just to precompile the assets). Looking at the codebase, it strikes me as odd. Is there really that much going on?