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If you are a developer who needs lots of machine power. there are few reasons not to work in the cloud, these days.
by WalterSear 9y ago
If you are a developer who needs lots of machine power. there are few reasons not to work in the cloud, these days.
- nikanj 9y ago1) Latency 2) Developing custom hardware that needs to be attached to dev box 3) No rage when the wifi at the airport sucks 4) etc Even though you don't need lots of power, there's plenty of solid and valid reasons why others might.
- WalterSear 9y agoExactly: a few reasons. Moreover 1. latency is low enough that people are playing triple AAA video games on AWS for a $1/hr. https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-ow... 2. Sure, that's a good reason. It had better be spewing out lots of data, though, or again, you might as well process in the cloud. 3. Being able to access your workstation via airport wifi at all is actually a benefit in this case, unless you intend to wheel it around like a suitcase.
- kpxxx 9y ago> Being able to access your workstation via airport wifi at all is actually a benefit in this case, unless you intend to wheel it around like a suitcase Did you walk out of a 1980s time warp or something? The workstation in this case carries 1TB of storage and weighs 3.5 lbs. (And it still has wifi in case you need that).
- skinnymuch 9y agoLatency is still annoying. I prefer VMs still. Regarding your number 3. For a lot of this, we are talking about devices like the MacBook Pro line. Not huge workstations.