Modern software engineering can be a bit of a nightmare. You've got all these different third-party services to keep track of, and often many first-party microservices too! As it turns out, things can be made more simple.How? Using Gleam, of course! This talk aims to be an introduction to why you should be using Gleam on the backend and how you can use it to simplify your application's architecture.Talk objectives:- Introduce Gleam as a solid choice as a backend language- Explain Gleam's benefits - type system, no runtime exceptions, etc.- Walk the audience through a sample project with a cache, background jobs (repeated and using a job queue) and show that it can all be implemented in a Gleam project without external services.