Nik Is a Purely Functional, Very Simple Programming Language.
Nixery is a set of tools that can be used to build and run programs. The package manager implements a concept called derivations. Derivation is essentially a data structure that says, we have a transformation that we want to apply to some data. And then this information together can be use to create a hash. So you take the hashes of everything going into your derivation, including, sort of recursively, the build instructions, and you hash them together,. You get something that uniquely identifies this particular operation to be executed.
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Vincent Ambo –the person behind nixery.dev, tvl.fyi, and a former Google engineer– shares his take on monorepos, Nix, and fully declarative systems without any Flux, Argo or Kubernetes.
While the tooling is impressive, it’s the principles behind it that captivated Gerhard’s imagination. Vincent has a rather interesting take on the monorepository idea, including one change - one version - one deploy. There are a lot of interesting links in the show notes, including all the code that Vincent uses to manage infrastructure.
As a result of this conversation, Gerhard is running Nix on one of his Macs, and also started experimenting with his first NixOS production instance.
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