Decoupling My Deployment Model
Evolving a NixOS deploy-rs setup where each site is a flake input, the whole server builds atomically, and multi-node deploys run with one command.
tag: Nix
NixOS Integration Tests To Become Even More Undeniable
NixOS' QEMU-based integration tests spin up whole multi-node systems in CI—why that makes them even more undeniable than container-based testing.
Nix: the Language, the Tool, the Package Repo, the OS
An approachable explainer untangling the four things all called 'Nix'—the language, the tool, the nixpkgs repo, and the NixOS operating system.
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.