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Namespace describes how it builds and manages custom Mac racks in datacentres to support iOS app developers.
Why it mattersIts account highlights the practical snags: cable management, heat, disk-encryption limits and distributing sparse virtual-machine images across hundreds of machines using a BitTorrent-inspired peer-to-peer system. It is a useful glimpse of the less glamorous engineering behind scaling Mac-based development. Which of those challenges would you tackle first: heat, security or getting software onto every machine?
Discuss: Which challenge would you tackle first when scaling a Mac-based development farm: heat, security or distributing software?
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