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Fast development on NixOS
Read more »: Fast development on NixOSWe’ve been using NixOS for a few years, and it has proven to be a stable and reliable OS. More importantly, it’s declarative and reproducible, which is one of the main reasons we decided to migrate ~700 of our Ubuntu servers to NixOS. However, it has a few downsides, and one of the biggest ones…
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NixCon Paris 2022
Read more »: NixCon Paris 2022After three years, we finally got a proper IRL NixCon. Since the Nix community is not the biggest one, it was nice to talk about Nix for three days (two at the conference and one at the sprint). We heard many interesting talks and answered a few important questions. So let’s start with the most…
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OceanSprint 2022
Read more »: OceanSprint 2022The mind has not yet completely recovered from all the brain explosions that happened during OceanSprint 2021, and I was already planning the next one. I’ve never organized two sprints so close to each other, but it worked out great! Domen and I knew exactly what we were getting into, most of the vendors we…
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Standing on the shoulders of giants
Read more »: Standing on the shoulders of giantsWhether we know it or not, we build things based on the work done before us. This is true in every aspect of life, and programming is no different. Every few weeks, we (at Niteo) have a developer session where we (developers at Niteo) talk about new things we learned, cool libraries/tools we discovered, etc.Last…
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Nix build on a diet
Read more »: Nix build on a dietAt Niteo, we are using nix-shell to build isolated development and production environments. We deploy production as a Docker image on Heroku. Recently, I’ve noticed that Pareto Security dashboard app deployments have been very slow. Almost 10 minutes, even more on a busy afternoon. Most of the time was spent in copying files around, as…
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Sprints are back!
Read more »: Sprints are back!Back in early 2010’s, “sprints” were how I lived. Week-long events, in random places around the World, hacking on open source. From offices in European cities, to lake sides, castles and saunas. It’s where I met some of my best friends, where I got business for Niteo’s agency side. It’s where I learned more than…
