Functional Infrastructure With Nix - Part 1 of 2
summary
Workshop teaches actual Nix tooling and shows concrete results: uses Nix, NixOS, NixOps to write expressions, build derivations, run nix-shell and nix-build, compile a C program and package it reproducibly, and built cluster deployed to EC2 (sans database). Transcript shows reproducible outputs with identical store hashes across machines and explains why RDS is omitted: RDS skipped (20–40m). Hands‑on files and commands are copied and tested live so the build works end to end.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 6:24Simple Values
- 7:38Lists
- 10:42Syntax of a Function
- 11:07Multiple Argument Functions
- 13:02Default Values
- 15:38Let Expressions
- 16:49Recursion by Using a Let Expression
- 17:13Recursive Factorial
- 31:16Package Manager
- 36:33Will the Packages in the Channel Change over Time
- 48:05Building Code
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