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Title: Rideshare Giant Grab Moves 200 Macs Out of the Cloud, Expects To Save
$2.4 Million

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/07/1432...

Singaporean super-app company Grab has dumped 200 cloudy Mac Minis and
replaced them with physical machines, a move it expects will save $2.4
million over three years. From a report: Grab is Southeast Asia's leading
rideshare and food delivery outfit and therefore needs to build apps for iOS
to connect with customers. In a Thursday post, the company explains it builds
those apps using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment
(CI/CD) infrastructure that runs on Apple Mac computers. The company started
with a single on-prem Mac Pro -- its post shows 2013's cylindrical model
based around an Intel Xeon processor -- but eventually reached over 200 Macs,
running in the cloud at an unnamed US cloud provider. "At the beginning, it
was a no-brainer to rent when our demand for macOS hardware increased from 1
Mac Pro to 20 times that size," Grab's post explains. "However, when that
grew to over 200 machines, the total cost became significant."

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