Nix, the purely functional package manager

Abstract:

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments.

Why would somebody even touch package management in 2015? Current package management never fails us, right? What does package management has to do with Continuous development?

What I would like to show (and hopefully convince you) is that not only packaging is possible in small teams (startups), but is actually one of the points where whole development process can be optimized.

Speaker: Rok Garbas