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Conclusion, which you should already know: cloud providers offer obsolete hardware for a premium price
by jbverschoor 7y ago
Conclusion, which you should already know: cloud providers offer obsolete hardware for a premium price
- Jgrubb 7y agoWrong conclusion, it's actually that people who build web applications and people who know how computers work are often not the same people.
- jbverschoor 7y agoThen why should you even allow them to access any server - vps or bare - at all? Also, please remove all ops-code from the two of someone who doesn’t understand ops is calling himself devops
- wmf 7y agoWe're not talking about obsolete hardware. There is a fundamental tradeoff between frequency and power efficiency and even the very newest servers generally choose a point on that tradeoff with more cores at lower frequency. There are also scale effects where you can put a small amount of very fast NVMe storage in a laptop without much of a price premium but to store all your production data on NVMe is possible but might not be financially justifiable.
- PeterStuer 7y agoGiving each developer access to a full mirror of the production environment might also not be financially viable. If a production scoped database fits on a small ssd, then your deployed production dB should probably not be on spinning metal trying to mitigate the orders of magnitude performance hit with boatload of expensive ram. If it doesn't fit, then obviously you have plentiful other issues that should be screaming at you that your laptop performance profiling is not going to make much sense.