Chances are you’ve seen me on X: unpacking hundreds of MacBook Pros to deploy in a datacenter. The video hit a nerve: insane enough at the first sight, yet kind of rational if you know what we know now.
So today I want to give some background into what it takes to build custom Mac racks, how we can start macOS instances from scratch in seconds and deliver new Xcode versions mere hours after Apple releases them.
Because our customers need Macs. And because Apple didn’t give us another option.
Many of our customers build and test iOS apps. You can't build iOS apps without a Mac. The iOS Simulator only runs on a Mac. Moreover, in order to release an app to the App Store, Apple requires using a recent Xcode version.xtoolxtool is cool, but it is not (yet) a serious replacement. So your coding agent needs a Mac.
