Over the past few years, I've become increasingly interested in self-hosting critical parts of my trading infrastructure.
Not because cloud providers are inherently bad. In fact, modern cloud platforms offer incredible tooling, scalability, and reliability. The motivation was different: I wanted greater control over security, deployment workflows, monitoring, and system behaviour.
Over the past few years, I've become increasingly interested in self-hosting critical parts of my trading infrastructure.
Not because cloud providers are inherently bad. In fact, modern cloud platforms offer incredible tooling, scalability, and reliability. The motivation was different: I wanted greater control over security, deployment workflows, monitoring, and system behaviour.
As my trading projects became more sophisticated, relying entirely on third-party services started to feel limiting. I wanted an environment where I understood every component, controlled every update, and could tailor the architecture to my exact requirements.
