There are several software development automation tools on the market that are explicitly designed for this purpose, e.g., Jenkins, XCode Server, and some development shops build their own automation. Yes, if you have a big job or process pipeline to execute that would benefit from distributing it across multiple machines, you’ll need to have a way to divide the work up, parcel it out to multiple machines, and aggregate the results. The yes part: This is a platform as a service (PaaS) flavor of cloud computing where you purchase access to additional Mac machines (and supporting AWS infrastructure) for a period of time to do with whatever your needs dictate. I imagine in the first instance, this is going to be used by folk who want to deploy microservices in scaling environments. That would need some changes to the software you're running to handle the distributed processing.
Someone will hopefully correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think so, no. For example, if I have a complex video that requires heavy computing power to render, will it help me directly? Can I render across 10 machines rather than the one sitting in front of me to reduce the time to finish significantly?
I’m not a developer and don’t really understand the implications for the end user.
