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#73 Nix - Functional Programming for Software Packaging with Domen Kožar

Happy Path Programming

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Congruent and Convergent Configuration Systems

The idea is to just build everything as much as we can from scratch. You don't need really differences because everything is built from scratch and glued together based on the config file that you're kind of, you know, that's the ultimate source of truth. And so it sounds to me like, like Nix, or let's start with a traditional operating system, traditional operating system is like a table. So whereas event sourcing says, no, let's not keep a table. Let's keep track of just all the events. And then we can always materialize our state by replaying the events.

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