Your Macs can do more for mobile testing. Orka 4.0 brings Android emulators to the same Apple silicon Macs that host your macOS VMs. One platform for more of your iOS and Android testing.
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The newest Mac mini isn’t the fastest Xcode build box.
From our benchmarks, M6 (12-core) vs M5 Pro (18-core):
Single-core, Geekbench 6: M6 +9%
Multi-core: M5 Pro +35%
Xcode build, iOS project with 76 CocoaPods: M5 Pro +29%
GetYourGuide's iOS team grew 4x.
~100 builds/day
PRs averaging 30 min
Release tests at 70 min
On MacStadium: PRs at 12 min, release tests at 20.
Adding engineers to a queue-bound pipeline just makes the queue longer. 🔗 bit.ly/4yPdlj1
Your build machine remembers too much.
Old dependencies. Config changes. Leftover packages. That “temporary” fix from three months ago.
Ephemeral macOS VMs change the model:
Create → build → destroy → repeat.
Every build starts clean.
Mac is no longer a niche platform within the enterprise. @MacStadium + @Presidio are partnering to help enterprises deploy, scale, and manage Mac infrastructure. #MacOps#Apple
