[Haskell-cafe] any cloud computing services for running Haskell?

[Chris Smith]

Why not do your production builds and testing on a virtual machine from
your cloud provider, configured from the same OS, image, etc. as your
production host?  Anything else seems like asking for trouble.

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Dennis Raddle <dennis.raddle at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Neat, I like that they have a Haskell environment.
>
> But, if I go with Google or Amazon, just curious about how I would create
> an app with my Mac, as they don't provide a macOS environment. Can I
> cross-compile for Windows or Linux on my Mac? Or, should I run a Windows
> virtual machine and build my app in that environment? (Not my favorite
> choice, as I would end up working in Windows most of the time.)
>
>
> D
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 11:07 PM, Lyndon Maydwell <maydwell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I heard about https://www.clever-cloud.com/ providing Haskell app
>> support.
>>
>> Didn't get to try it out though.
>>
>>
>> Warm Regards,
>>
>>  - Lyndon
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 3:57 PM, David Turner
>> <dct25-561bs at mythic-beasts.com> wrote:
>> > On 17 Jul 2017 06:49, "Dennis Raddle" <dennis.raddle at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks. I guess I don't know much about cloud services. Will they run a
>> lot
>> > of threads in parallel? Or do they run my program on only one CPU
>> and/or use
>> > only the number of cores in one processor? That's the point of using
>> them,
>> > to run more threads in parallel than I have cores on my MacBook.
>> >
>> >
>> > Depending on your budget, on AWS you can rent a machine from the
>> miniscule
>> > t2.nano all the way up to the 128-core x1.32xlarge, with various
>> tradeoffs
>> > on memory vs CPU vs storage vs ... in between. All can run Haskell
>> programs.
>> > There's also various options in Haskell for distributing your
>> computation
>> > across multiple machines, if that sounds useful.
>> >
>> > A good place to start is the pricing page which gives you a good
>> overview of
>> > the options.
>> >
>> > https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/
>> >
>> > Other cloud providers are available, of course.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > D
>> >
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