Six months with Nix & devenv and counting

Valencia Codes would like to welcome you all to our #20 edition of Level Up at the offices of Deutsche Telekom.

What is Level Up? It's a monthly meet-up where we will be inviting speakers from inside and outside of our community to introduce you to interesting technical topics and share their experiences with you.

Six months with Nix & devenv and counting
by Jose Miguel Martínez, Staff Software Engineer @ Zscaler
"On this talk I present my experience introducing Nix, home-manager, darwin-nix and devenv in a project where most team members use a macbook but we spend quite some time on Linux too.

A declarative configuration - that does not interfere with OSX and company provided tooling - that can be shared with team members to be used with minimum changes - that keeps a working environment on every iteration - that really boosts productivity
adding devenv to the mix - so people with no exposure to nix feel comfortable - so developers have an almost identical setup - so complexity is hiden using processes and services instead of customised containers and scripts.

Unfortunately some pain points too - as it was impossible to replicate workflows Linux users were used to - not all available packages can be installed.

After this six months experience, this combination is highly recommendable for all projects aiming to enjoy the good parts and some to polish edges I have seen."

Agenda
1900 - Snacks 🍕, Drinks 🍻 and networking
1930 - Talk "Six months with Nix & devenv and counting"
2030 - More networking!

Sponsors
- Our hosts for this event are Deutsche Telekom. They are hiring for many roles in Valencia! https://careers.telekom.com/careers