No downvote from me. But a explanation why e.g. compiled binaries are better. I had a hard time to get a normal non fancy Scala Play project running on a 512MB DigitalOcean instance. Mostly because it needs a lot more ram for building. I solved it with using a bigger swap partition. With single binary precompiled programs this problem is more a developer machine problem than a infrastructure problem. So I think the deployment step itself (and not looking at anything else) is easier with a small single binaries.