[kodablah]

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.

[kcorbitt]

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).

[kodablah]

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.