[eyegor]

How do you define "core business"? Any laptop os would crumple purely by running out of resource handles on the connections, even without doing work. I've run into file descriptor / handle size limits on small clusters before, I can't imagine trying to deal with 1m+ concurrent tcp connections.

[toast0]

MacOs is a terrible server OS, unless you want to YOLO lack of synflood protections. That said, if 64GB macbookpro means 64GB of ram, that's enough for a lot more than 1M file descriptors. I'd still tend to pick other hardware; I don't see the sense in buying Apple hardware to run a different OS; especially as they move farther away from mainstream hardware.

[api]

The Mac Studio running Linux seems like it'd actually make a pretty decent server. Not the most cost-effective option but not terrible when you also factor in power consumption.

Apple should really license the M architecture for servers. They could even have someone else manufacture and deal with delivering it. They're leaving free money on the table. I don't think it would cannibalize their Mac sales at all.

[john_max_1]

"core bussiness" is finding and dispatcching drivers including payments. Everything in-app.

> I can't imagine trying to deal with 1m+ concurrent tcp connections. 2 million connections on a BSD mchine is doable though not trivial and that too even in 2012. https://blog.whatsapp.com/1-million-is-so-2011