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Because hardware has already reached the level where run of the mill front-end/back-end software development can be done comfortably on just about anything. Ev
by ThrowawayR2 5y ago
Because hardware has already reached the level where run of the mill front-end/back-end software development can be done comfortably on just about anything. Even run of the mill NUC-style office PCs from Dell/HP/etc. have up to 8 physical cores and 32 GB of RAM and they can be found dirt cheap off-lease.
Sure, true workstations get up to a couple dozen cores and a few TB of RAM but what would the average developer do with it that warrants that kind of money?
- fy20 5y agoMaybe five years ago I bought a used Dell workstation with a 8c16t Xeon and 32GB ECC RAM. It was a couple of years out of date at the time, but I paid €200 for it. They had dual-CPU versions for maybe €100 more, but I figured I didn't need that. To build a desktop PC with even remotely similar specs would have been well over €1000. It came with a not very good GPU, but that and the SSD were easily upgraded. For what I did at the time - and probably even now - it was well over powered. At one point I ran 10 instances of our Selenium test suite at once (trying to debug random failures) and it didn't even bat an eyelid.