As a Big Data Solutions Architect and InfraOps, I need development environments to install and test software. They have to be configurable, flexible, and performant. Working with distributed systems, the best-fitting setups for this use case are local virtualized clusters ...

Nixpkgs is an ever-increasing collection of software packages for Nix and NixOS. Even with more than 80,000 packages, you easily run in a situation where there is a functionality that is not yet implemented. Earlier this year, we wrote a ...