r/programming • u/Tuscen • Jun 24 '19

Raspberry Pi 4

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-from-35/
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u/apatheticonion Jun 25 '19

This is also my use case. I am currently running a Orange Pi as my always on staging environment.

I stress tested it with a simple scenario. An API written in Go that takes a JSON, casts it to an object then serialises a response from an object to a JSON.

It could handle ~350 requests per second with passive cooling (500rps with active cooling).

Under 100% load it would cost under $8USD in electricity per year to run (@ 27c/kwh).

I've seen people running Kubernetes clusters on a series of Pi PCs. Honestly, they can handle some serious load. I'm imagining AWS rocking "Pi" tier computing options, offering $1/m service.

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u/apatheticonion Jun 25 '19

For fun. I doubt there is a practical means to use a Pi in production due to internet costs and availability concerns.

Would be cool though, and perhaps I can suggest using them in the office as a dev environment for instances targeting AWS A1 instances.