We Rewrote Our Startup from PHP to Gleam in 3 Weeks

A startup successfully migrated their knowledge base management system from PHP/Laravel to Gleam in three weeks, despite no prior Gleam experience. The rewrite was motivated by personal preference for functional, statically-typed languages and Gleam's compilation to Erlang/BEAM. Key challenges included learning the use keyword and result module, decoding/encoding data types, and building a custom query builder. The migration simplified infrastructure by replacing Laravel queues with BEAM VM processes, and the system has run reliably in production for one month with zero issues.