Thank you Sven. I didn't know about this alternative. I guess it's worth using it if your horizontal scale is relevant, or if there is a particular set of use cases (high I/O, low cpu?). Regards! El Fri Nov 14 2014 at 11:31:27 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> escribió:
On 14 Nov 2014, at 15:17, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaringolo@gmail.com> wrote:
What are the benefits of running a Pharo server in the cloud on ARM architecture?
Basically there are two server schools: the classic old school is only interested in raw performance at any cost, a newer, alternative school thinks that cheaper, massive parallel and more efficient (performance per watt) CPUs can have advantages. This of course assumes the workload scales horizontally, like in web applications and services.
Here is the article where I learned about the Online Labs initiative:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/13/online-labs-designed-its- own-arm-servers-to-take-on-aws-digitalocean/