Robert Hensing
Robert Hensing started his career as a functional programmer, has used Nix since 2016, and he's a maintainer for some of the core components of the Nix ecosystem, such as Nix itself, and the declarative configuration eDSL, the Module System.
In 2018 he founded Hercules CI, a bootstrapped CI/CD dashboard/scheduling SaaS, as he does not like what venture capital tends to do to nice open source communities.
Sessions
Declarative systems work better when they encompass more of their domain.
Nix is a general configuration language with the power to bridge multiple domains.
This talk will focus briefly on a couple of projects to explore how Nix can be used, and lays out a vision for functional DevOps, to provide a unified experience for
- build: a brief analysis of the Nix architecture
- operating system configuration: principles behind NixOS
- process managers: Nix processmgmt and Nix RFC 163 services
- continuous integration: Hercules CI
- deployment of distributed systems: NixOps4