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Supper Club × Flightcontrol with Brandon Bayer

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

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How to Use Nix Packs to Build Your Application

Heroku build packs were a way to define the native dependencies that your application needed. railway, which is another platform service, has created this project called Nix packs. It's really good in a couple of ways: it generates the Docker file for you and anyone working with Docker files can use this. Most of the times Nix packs will produce a faster build and a smaller image size than hand crafting a Docker file from scratch.

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