What I'm learning about Mighty reminds me of a recent development at work: I have to use an ETL tool that is terribly resource hungry and consumes 5GB+ of RAM without doing much. My macbook pro only has 8GB of memory, so running Chrome and some other applications gets me close full memory usage. The result are frequent and frustrating crashes of the ETL tool. New hardware is not an option for the moment, so we decided to give Amazon Workspaces [0] a try.
It's basically a big Windows desktop (16GB RAM) running in the Cloud that I can just access like any other window. It consumes around 500MB of memory on my machine itself.
For highly interactive or latency-bound applications this is probably not an option but for asynchronous work (me launching jobs that take 5 minutes to run) I really appreciate this flexible cloud extension to my current setup.
For highly interactive or latency-bound applications this is probably not an option but for asynchronous work (me launching jobs that take 5 minutes to run) I really appreciate this flexible cloud extension to my current setup.
[0] https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces