[gryf]

This. We have three people entirely dedicated to reducing costs.

As for avoiding ARM, we do only x86-64 because corporate security policy demands that we have Windows laptops so that some box ticking overlord can fill out a security policy compliance form. That means we're stuck limping along with docker and WSL2. Every single engineer in the org has an arm64 machine at home already and wants a proper computer at work, which can ironically work in the same policy framework if anyone gave enough of a shit to deal with it.

So that's why we don't use Graviton; corporate security policies. Our customers will just have to eat the price hikes.

[allset_]

Builds in production shouldn't be built using developer laptops. I think you're approaching this wrong. You can build and test on x86_64 laptops all day if you want and still easily deploy to arm64 servers.

[gryf]

We don't do production builds on laptops.

But it's important that all builds are 100% reproducible on all build targets and that includes non docker ones. That is much more difficult if you have to cross compile stuff. We can barely manage one architecture.

[jiggawatts]

You can cross-compile to ARM using Docker on Windows.

See: https://www.docker.com/blog/multi-arch-images/