3 ms·
You want dusty Mac Mini laying under desk somewhere which if fails will put your entire operation on pause for couple of days? There might be valid business us
by lmilcin 6y ago
You want dusty Mac Mini laying under desk somewhere which if fails will put your entire operation on pause for couple of days?
There might be valid business uses for that, but for a company that invested a huge amount of money in a team of developers and then pays them through the nose for every hour whether they work or not and maybe have clients that count on updates, that is simply not acceptable.
Also many companies choose to have their entire infra in the cloud and then it doesn't make sense to spend effort to integrate one physical machine.
- cbKSF 6y agoThe failure rate of single machine setups is way overrated (also, you could have several machines of course). We need decentralization, smaller providers like Hetzner and also in-house IT.
- lmilcin 6y agoIt is not failure rate, it is the cost if it happens. I work for large corporations and the calculations are entirely different from what a small, cash strapped startup would be doing. For example, if you work on a new product and it would take 1 day to get Mac Mini for free vs you would be paying for cloud solution 1000 dollars daily but get it one day sooner, it might still be well worthwhile to get cloud version. Because if you think about it, it is possible that Mac Mini would be holding up your product development for one day, then you calculate how much you hope to earn from that product daily and how much you are loosing while you haven't launched and then it is no brainer. As I said, it depends on business case. For some, the cost of this M1 VM is not going to be any factor in the decision. Have you seen how expensive GPUs are in the cloud? Have you seen how many clients are that pay for huge farms of these?