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I tried using Amazon ARM server instances running Postgres and they periodically locked up for reasons I could not determine. So I waited a couple of years an

• jeroenhd 3y ago
  My ARM server experience is similarly disappointing. Sometimes there's software that's just not available and setting up cross compilers sucks. Running Docker containers on ARM feels like the Gentoo version of Docker. Sometimes you'll find an official image that will work, but most of the time you end up compiling images. In some cases, the base images need compiling too, so you end up with custom Docker bases that you now also need to keep track of in case they need to be updated. There's no technical reason why it has to be this hard, but if you're mostly running other people's software, everything is just so very suboptimal. Luckily, Apple's macbooks are now bringing consumer ARM to developers in a way that makes sense. I think there's a direct link between the M1 coming out and the sudden increase in aarch64 Docker images. There are still major pain points with ARM but the experience is getting better.