NixOS: Functional Programming for Your Operating System
Nix OS: Functional Programming for Your Operating System What if your entire operating system, including every package, configuration file, and service, could be defined as the output of a pure funct…
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- Source Allies4501 NW Urbandale Dr, Urbandale, IA 50322, USA, Urbandale, IA, Urbandale, IADes Moines
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Nix
OS: Functional Programming for Your Operating System
What if your entire operating system, including every package, configuration file, and service, could be defined as the output of a pure function?
Join Dev
Ops
DSM on Wednesday, December 2nd, as Matt Morrison and Chase Sunstroke from Source Allies introduces Nix
OS and explores how ideas from functional programming can change the way we configure, manage, and maintain operating systems.
Traditional Linux environments can come with familiar frustrations, including conflicting dependencies, inconsistent configurations, unexpected issues after upgrades, and the classic "works on my machine" problem. Nix
OS takes a different approach by treating system configuration as code and applying three key functional programming concepts:
Declarative configuration, Immutability, and Determinism.
They will demonstrate these concepts by building a real Nix
OS system live and showing how atomic rollbacks allow you to return to a previous working co
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