The Temporal server stores events and distributes tasks. There is a cloud offering or it can be self-hosted (with support for Cassandra, Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite persistence). This post focuses more on the Temporal Python SDK and not the general platform.
Could you or anyone else with experience with Temporal share how hard it is to self-host in practice? Like, is this more like Redis (self-hosting is trivial) or Supabase (nominally self-hostable, but if you try to do it you'll quickly realize it's a pain and the happy path is to use their hosted platform).
We offer a full guide to help here at https://docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide and many users of all sizes self-host Temporal. Having said that, it has challenges as does running any high-available production system. We offer cloud to ease this burden. You still run all your code/workers and you can end-to-end encrypt all data.
