First Principles Infrastructure: Why NixOS Beats Containers and Clouds in 2025

Why I'm long-term bearish on Docker, Kubernetes, and managed clouds—and how NixOS solves dependencies and deployment from first principles.

The Power of Nix: Developing, Building, and Deploying a Phoenix App

The 'holy grail' Nix flake for Phoenix: pinned deps, a dev shell, a build derivation, and deployment—one piece of infrastructure for the whole lifecycle.