Self-sufficient by design: no third-party CDN in the request path

It's normal for a developer platform to be assembled from other platforms — a CDN here, a DNS provider there, a managed edge in front. It's also fragile. Every vendor in the request path is an outage you can't fix and a price you don't set. We built Tallrig so that no CDN, DNS provider or managed edge sits in that path. The one vendor underneath is the cloud host our server runs on.

What 'self-sufficient' actually means

DNS, the firewall, DDoS absorption, the rate-limiter, and the runtime all run as software we operate ourselves — no CDN, because there is no distributed edge cache to run: one region today, on a rented cloud server. When something is slow, we can profile it. When something breaks, we can fix it. The one vendor underneath us is the cloud host that server runs on.

One platform, one bill, one identity layer

The flip side of owning every layer is that the layers fit together. Network, deploy, compute, mail, and comms — with AI woven through all of them — share one account, one dashboard, and one typed API — so adding the next capability is a switch you flip, not a new vendor you onboard, a new SDK you learn, and a new invoice you reconcile.

Honest by default

Owning the stack also means we can be precise about status. Everything on this site is labelled live, preview, or coming soon — no fake roadmaps, no vapourware. If it says live, it's running in production right now.