upvote for WAL + object storage (a very powerful combination I am finally seeing more adoption of) and a lot of interesting historical details.

I'm fortunate I don't rely on any forge for my solo work except for backups. In my personal stack I just have a log and content-addressed object kv storage, which can project to git if needed, or can be committed to git as files. And docker if I need isolation for CI/CD.

The most interesting alternative to me is atomic.dev (check their very informative blog posts) but I'll be keeping an eye on all of them.