Ask HN: Do you use a second local build server?

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I run an M1 MacBook Pro as my main development machine and have used MacBooks for a long time. I run a lot of heavy C++ compilation tasks.

I recently thought about augmenting my setup with a Mac M2 Studio Ultra, and offloading all compilation tasks over there.

Do any of you supplement your primary machine with other local ones? Or cloud ones?

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I have, but my M1 MBA is my most powerful machine now. My servers are low-power (eg low enough consumption to be entirely off-grid) RPis and a small virtual machine in the cloud.

I used to orchestrate tens to hundreds of desktop machines and servers overnight for banking clients for batch runs and so on, so I know how it can work nicely.

For now I concentrate on getting decent parallelism out of my jobs, since all of my machines are multi-core.

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