Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLife without Kubernetes: Hosting Mirrors with NixOS (nixcon2025)
Kubernetes is good for many machines with complex networking setups, but not that good for a 2-machine one, especially when there's only one maintain…
1 year, 2 months ago
My first Nix Aha!: A Newcomer’s Perspective (nixcon2025)
When I first saw a colleague of mine typing "nix-shell", I had no idea what it did — but running it felt like magic. A swirl of "/nix/store/..." mess…
1 year, 2 months ago
Nix-based development environments at Shopify (reprise) (nixcon2025)
Over the past year at Shopify we've undergone a lot of changes internally. We moved from cloud development to local development, multirepo to monorep…
1 year, 2 months ago
Supply Chain Security Panel Discussion (nixcon2025)
Nix is a very promising technology for fundamentally improving supply chain security. In some ways its lives up to this promise already, in a lot of …
1 year, 2 months ago
Is NixOS ready for the CRA? (nixcon2025)
The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is the EU's most important regulation for software in the last decade. While it makes an exception for open-source sof…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Nix Binary Cache and AWS (nixcon2025)
Behind the Scenes of cache.nixos.org: Scaling Nix’s Binary Cache to Infinity The Nix binary cache is the silent powerhouse of the Nix ecosystem: ever…
1 year, 2 months ago
Flatpaks the Nix way (nixcon2025)
Nix and Flatpak are often seen as solving similar problems from different angles: one declarative and reproducible, the other sandboxed and user-frie…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Road Towards a NixOS UI (nixcon2025)
Imagine a Sim-City-style interface for managing your infrastructure: drag a machine onto the field, connect it to a service, and you're done. Behind …
1 year, 2 months ago
Free Software (Talk and Discussion) (nixcon2025)
This talk explores the challenges and opportunities faced by the free software movement today. It offers a broad reflection on what "freedom" means i…
1 year, 2 months ago
You can't spell "devshell" without "hell" (nixcon2025)
Ever wondered how “nix develop” works? What kind of arcane horrors make our reproducible developer environments work? In this talk we’ll begin by exp…
1 year, 2 months ago