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These are my own questions - asked since the first mac mini was introduced:

- Why is the tooling so lame ?

- What do they, themselves, use internally ?

Stringing together mac minis (or a "Studio", whatever) with thunderbolt cables ... Christ.

I assume a company like Apple either has custom server boards with tons of unified memory on M series with all the i/o they could want (that are ugly and thus not productized) or just use standard expensive nvidia stuff like everyone else.

the answer is even more boring, they use GCP haha

It’s quite interesting how „boring“ (traditionally enterprise?) their backend looks on the occasional peeks you get publicly. So much Apache stuff & XML.

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