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0 pointskgeist1y ago0 comments

We have a project which spawns around 80 Docker containers and runs pretty OK on a 5 year old Dell laptop with 16GB RAM. The fans run crazy and the laptop is always very hot but I haven't noticed considerable lags, even with IntelliJ running. Most services are written in Go though and are pretty lightweight.

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Tainnor1y ago

> Most services are written in Go though and are pretty lightweight

That's probably the difference. Throw elasticsearch, kafka and a bunch of Java services in and you'll be easily exhausting your RAM (at least at startup).

stephenr1y ago

16GB of RAM is hardly a gargantuan amount in 2024 - it's not unreasonable to expect someone running a local dev environment to have a more practical amount. I wouldn't buy (or recommend) any machine for dev work with less than 64GB in 2024.

kgeistOP1y ago

>I wouldn't buy (or recommend) any machine for dev work with less than 64GB in 2024.

Honestly, I think it depends on what kind of languages/frameworks/tools you use. Go is very lightweight, and you can safely run hundreds of Go services under 16 GB no problem (and with a crappy CPU, too). Python/Java/PHP etc. on the other hand, are much more wasteful. Our Go shop only now is considering maybe buying 32GB dev machines...

kgeistOP1y ago

It has OpenSearch, RabbitMQ, Redis, MySQL

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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Tainnor1y ago

> Most services are written in Go though and are pretty lightweight

That's probably the difference. Throw elasticsearch, kafka and a bunch of Java services in and you'll be easily exhausting your RAM (at least at startup).

stephenr1y ago

kgeistOP1y ago

>I wouldn't buy (or recommend) any machine for dev work with less than 64GB in 2024.

kgeistOP1y ago

It has OpenSearch, RabbitMQ, Redis, MySQL

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse