[bpicolo]

Docker for mac has absolutely dreadful filesystem performance for mounted volumes (Docker toolbox with the extra virtualbox indirection actually ends up being faster if you're doing filesystem reads even remotely frequently). If you need to work with 100GB on disk you're going to have a lot of problems.

https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/77

[yjgyhj]

For this reason I went out to buy a Intel NUC and am now running NixOS on there. Developing on that machine, with a Clojure nRepl connected via SSH. Works great, especially since my service can now be running and fetching data from the internet when my laptop is closed, so that next time I work I don't have to wait for my service to catch up with the world.