Singaporean super-app company Grab has dumped 200 cloudy Mac Minis and replaced them with physical machines, a move it expects will save $2.4 million over three years.

Grab is Southeast Asia’s leading rideshare and food delivery outfit and therefore needs to build apps for iOS to connect with customers. In a Thursday post , the company explains it builds those apps using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) infrastructure that runs on Apple Mac computers.

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The company started with a single on-prem Mac Pro – its post shows 2013’s cylindrical model based around an Intel Xeon processor – but eventually reached over 200 Macs, running in the cloud at an unnamed US cloud provider.

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