Remote builders and stores, nixbuild.net with Rickard Nilsson

Pre-roll transcript:Before you is an episode of the Full Time Nix podcast.For silence skipping and other useful features consider using a podcast app.---https://cache.nixos.orghttps://nixbuild.net/https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.26/store/types/https://www.cachix.org/https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.26/development/experimental-features.html#xp-feature-dynamic-derivationshttps://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.26/development/experimental-features.html#xp-feature-ca-derivationshttps://lix.systems/https://tvix.dev/https://github.com/ngi-nix/summer-of-nixhttps://nixos.org/community/teams/nix/https://github.com/Ericson2314https://www.haskell.org/https://slurm.schedmd.com/https://planetnix.com/Generated chapters:00:00 Introduction to Nix and Remote Building02:38 Understanding Nix Daemon and Communication Protocols05:01 Exploring Derivations and Their Role in Nix07:26 Setting Up Remote Builders in Nix09:48 Remote Building Process and Configuration12:08 Remote Store vs Remote Builder Features14:21 Managing Build Outputs and Dependencies16:45 Optimizing Remote Builds and Scheduling19:28 Conclusion and Future Improvements24:16 Understanding Remote Store Features24:43 Continuous Integration (CI) Workflows26:37 Leveraging Remote Builders in CI29:20 Exploring Nix Store Components35:26 The Role of Substitutes in Nix40:48 Introducing nixbuild.net: A Solution for Nix Builds50:15 The Power of Concurrency in Build Services54:11 Choosing nixbuild.net for Efficient Builds55:17 Understanding Latency and On-Site Options59:29 Hardware and Architectures for Nix Builds01:01:37 When to Consider nixbuild.net01:03:49 Managing Compatibility with Nix Versions01:06:22 The Nix Community and Company Dynamics01:07:59 Contributions to the Open Source Ecosystem01:16:28 Internal Stack and Resource Management01:21:05 Final Thoughts and Future Directions ---Nixcademy ad transcript:Statistically speaking, Nix is a novel technology.As such, adoption comes at an immediate cost of productivity.Team members who know Nix find themselves preoccupied providing supportand the emergence of anti-patterns adds technical debt.What's worse; morale is affected.But, with training, these costs can be all but elimitated.Founded by my friend and mentor Jacek Galowicz,Nixcademy have brought hundreds of team members up to speed with Nix.It's what they do.So, liberate your Nix experts,prevent technical debtand get on top of Nix and back to work better and sooner.Visit nixcademy.com.Jacek tells me that most Nixcademy clients returned their investment in training in under three months.They also provide free educational content that I recommend and a newsletter that I subscribe to.nixcademy.com.Determinate Nix ad transcript:You may be a huge Nixer, seeking to apply it to everything at work.But — security, compliance, and scale.Enter Determinate Nix.It is the Nix that powers our systems.But with the governance, stability, and features to back an enterprise Nixer.Such as:- Parallel evaluation- Out of the box native Linux builder on macOS- Lazy trees- Automatic certificate handling- First-class mobile device managementAnd the list goes on.Visit determinate.systems to find out how Nixers in charge of critical infrasuch as finance and defense turn deterministic fantasy into reproducible reality.determinate.systemsPost-roll transcript:For past and future episodes search “Full Time Nix” on a podcast app or visit fulltimenix.com.For 1-on-1 mentoring sessions with me visit mightyi.am.