
Serverless Bulls and Bears: How One Developer Built a Real-Time Stock Analyst with Zero Infrastructure
Most real-time financial systems rely on deep stacks of infrastructure, from custom APIs to cloud VMs and high-frequency data ingestion pipelines. But what if a single developer could deploy a daily-updating, AI-powered stock analysis engine without a single server? That’s exactly what Taniv Ashraf set out to do — and accomplished — in his recent case study on a fully serverless architecture using Google Gemini, GitHub Actions, and static web hosting. The result is an elegantly simple yet conceptually powerful demonstration of how qualitative LLM analysis and automation tools can replace entire categories of financial tooling — if wielded strategically. ...