[accountofme]

Hi,

I've been down this road, so yeah, good luck!

My advice is keep it simple.

Following trends and doing a lot of other things is going to get you side tracked (this happened to me).

1. For dev and prod systems -> for dev its simple buy a desktop based system and go to town ryzen + 64gb ram + ssds will get you far. For prod fixed price monthly VM that can handle your needs.

2. Deployment to trader -> zip file extract to a new directory and run it

3. Ci and CD are great but your best bet is to write some scripts that are well tested and documented to deploy yourstuff and do it when you think your release is well tested.

4. There was a hft fund that lost 450 million in 45mins due to deployment error and testing errors. Test test test. Make sure your software is bullet proof!!!!

Hope that helps