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This blog serves as the public documentation for Severed. This space is dedicated to the technical source-of-truth for the experiments, infrastructure-as-code, and proprietary tooling that are used.

Ecosystem

The following services are currently active within the severed.ink network:

• ChronoFlow Quant: Proprietary Trading Pipeline (Auth Required)
• Flow Admin: Dagster Orchestration Engine (Auth Required)
• Optics: Centralized Grafana Observability (Auth Required)
• Gitea: Version Control & Git Ops (Public)
• Blog: Public Engineering Documentation (Public)

Core Infrastructure

The ecosystem is powered by a hybrid Home Server Cluster managed via a Kubernetes (k3s) distribution and AWS services. We prioritize local sovereignty and GitOps principles.

• CI Pipeline: Automated build and test suites are orchestrated by a private Jenkins server utilizing self-hosted runners.
• GitOps & Deployment: Automated synchronization and state enforcement via ArgoCD.
• Data Layer: Persistent storage managed by PostgreSQL.
• Telemetry: Full-stack observability provided by Prometheus (metrics) and Loki (logs) via Grafana.
• Security Layer: Push/Pull GitOps operations require an active connection to a WireGuard (VPN) for remote access.

Roadmap

Efforts are currently focused on the following milestones:

1. OSS Strategy: Transitioning from a hybrid of AWS managed services toward a ~100% Open Source Software (OSS) stack.
2. High Availability (HA): Implementing a "Cloud RAID-1" failover mechanism. In the event of home cluster instability, traffic automatically routes to a secondary cloud-instantiated Kubernetes cluster as a temporary failover.
3. Data Resilience: Automating PostgreSQL backup strategies to ensure parity between the primary cluster and the cloud-based failover.
4. Storage Infrastructure: Integrating a dedicated TrueNAS node to move from local SATA/NVMe reliance to a centralized, redundant storage architecture.

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