I like Docker. If you don’t understand why, read the 3.5k word epic that I wrote about it at InfoQ. In this post I’ll assumeyou’ve read my InfoQ article, or are at least somewhat familiar with Docker and its features.Here’s two features that I care about in particular: It makes applications _portable_ to any cloudContinue reading “Declaratively Provision Docker Images Using Nix”
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Deploying a Simple Node.js Application with NixOps
In a previous post I described how Nix could be used to easily set up a development environment without the use of virtual machines alternatives like Vagrant require. As an example I used setting up a development environment for a simple “Hello world” node.js application. At the very end I teased that the work weContinue reading “Deploying a Simple Node.js Application with NixOps”
Setting Up Development Environments With Nix
I remember my first day at Cloud9 IDE well. It was very similar to my first day Technical University of Delft as a PhD student, and my first day at LogicBlox: a day spent on installing a bunch of software, tweaking configuration files, environment variables, running services to get my system into a state soContinue reading “Setting Up Development Environments With Nix”
