I was using Scalway's ARM (Cavium) 2core/2GB instance for a web application (HTML+Minimal Vanilla JS+Go+PSQL) until they suddenly pulled the plug on their ARM instances. I didn't like the way they did it and so I migrated to AWS x86 T2.micro 1core/1GB, but surprisingly the application seems faster here although I think Scaleway had greater network bandwidth.
It may be that I didn't use ARM optimized version of PostgreSQL or some other variable I'm missing. But anyways Apple M1 could be more performant than any of the low-mid x86 offering considering the work is optimized for ARM.
It may be that I didn't use ARM optimized version of PostgreSQL or some other variable I'm missing. But anyways Apple M1 could be more performant than any of the low-mid x86 offering considering the work is optimized for ARM.