From Hobbyist to Sovereign: Making Raspberry Pi 5 Handle Enterprise Workloads

This deep dive proves that enterprise-grade self-hosted infrastructure—including collaborative office suites, AI-powered video surveillance, and private networks—is achievable on budget hardware. By implementing optimization techniques like memory compression (ZRAM) and offloading AI workloads to hardware accelerators such as Google Coral TPU, users can maintain both performance and data sovereignty, offering a practical alternative to expensive SaaS platforms for privacy-conscious users.