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by brian_cunnie 1104 days ago
I like the article, but I wish there had been an "Abstract" or "Executive Summary" at the top so that I'd be spared having to read the entire article to find out the results. I'd like to have seen something along the lines of the following:

"We found Hetzner's ARM64 offering, specifically the CAX21 with 4 cores, 8GB at $8.40/month, to be a performant and cost-effective alternative to x86_64-based solutions."

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Also add, based on tests arm performed 8% worse than amd64, but this is offset by the 14% savings.
Also, notably, the team who did the benchmarking were impressed enough to have actually switched entirely to said CAX instances for their app.
Good idea! I've added some TL;DRs at the beginning of the article.