07-05, 14:30–15:00 (Europe/Tallinn), GEOCAT (301)
Nix is used to build the largest collection of software packages on a planet, including geospatial software maintained by Nix Geospatial Team. It is multi platform, runs on any Linux and even on a Mac. In addition, Nix provides full control of a dependency graph, can build reproducible, per-project isolated environments, container images, run services and provide many other features not found anywhere else.
I will demonstrate some very unique features of Nix, which can make a developer's or a user's life so much nicer and will present the arguments why we should seriously consider using this technology for a FOSS4G software.
This talk is follow up on my previous FOSS4G talk about features and potential benefits of using Nix technology stack for geospatial use cases.
Long term free software DevOps engineer with special interest in building things with Nix and NixOS.