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When I worked as a consultant for Apple Retail Software Engineering, we did have huge clusters of machines running VMware — on the biggest, beefiest, Xserve har

When I worked as a consultant for Apple Retail Software Engineering, we did have huge clusters of machines running VMware — on the biggest, beefiest, Xserve hardware that could be bought. Maxed out on RAM, CPU, and everything else that could be crammed into those boxes. I was told that the entire final run of hardware was reserved for Apple internal use. Our Jenkins CI/CD server was just a VM on the cluster, and ran Xcode to do the iOS and MacOS X builds on one set of slaves, and the Linux back-end server software on another slave. Dunno what they’ve got now.

TimTheTinker 8y ago
> I was told that the entire final run of hardware was reserved for Apple internal use. I get the sense that Apple's strict devotion to its product line is (to put it nicely) creating a discontinuity between their own practices and what they offer to others. It makes me think Apple needs a separate company or brand to offer practical utilities (and perhaps consulting) to companies wishing to deploy Apple software -- things like licenses to use macOS on non-Apple hardware (like a Dell EMC VxRack SDDC[0]), productizing some of their own IT solutions, special iPhones with a 1Gb RJ45 port attached for automated testing, and even "catch the vision"-style marketing to promote their idea of a data/compute center that integrates macOS and other Apple technologies. [0] https://www.dellemc.com/en-us/converged-infrastructure/vxrack-system/index.htm https://www.dellemc.com/en-us/converged-infrastructure/vxrac...