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Hey guys, I am a co-founder of Turing Pi. I see a lot of comments around Raspberry Pi, performance and VM. I just want to shed a light on some things here. Turi
by nsky-world 7y ago
Hey guys, I am a co-founder of Turing Pi. I see a lot of comments around Raspberry Pi, performance and VM. I just want to shed a light on some things here. Turing Pi is not about performance, it's about cluster architecture. If you look at Turing Pi as a homelab project, then yes, you can get more performance with some used cheap servers. Of course, if you get approval from your homies to occupy a closet. You can even run apps in containers with Kubernetes orchestration using VM and so on.
The main idea behind Turing Pi is to deliver compute to the edge. If we look at cases where some compute will run low latency, highly available and internet independent apps to automate processes, and often in a hard to reach places, then the classic servers, not a solution. Turing Pi is an early version of edge computers with cloud-native architecture. Why it's important? Because if you are a business with some services running in the cloud and you want your edge computing organically to coexist with your cloud stack, then edge clusters could be a great choice. The speed to innovate and deploy your code into production to both cloud and the edge environment could be a critical component.
The existing Turing Pi model more oriented at forward-thinking developers who want to learn and push cloud-native to the edge. Why Raspberry Pi computers? They are not the most powerful computers, but they definitely can lower the entry point for developers by offering a huge and well-documented software ecosystem.