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What's Nix and it's ecosystem of approaches in a Bird's eye view

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Session Description

Nix is a pretty proper approach to solve tons of modern day software industry problems.

Through this talk I'll give a Bird’s eye view on Nix and it's ecosystem of approaches to solve things in a fundamentally proper way. This talks will also introduce examples to understand

Pure functional Declarative vs

Declarative vs

Imperative systems.

This talks is aimed at beginners to demystify what's Nix and where to get started with this cool paradigm.

I'll also share a glimpse of some out of the dozens of projects in the nix ecosystem, to get the bigger picture.

For organizers:

It would be helpful if u can extend the talk time like 5 to 10 mins extra if many ask doubts.🙂

If not , atleast don't shorten the time(30 mins) please🥲.

Key Takeaways

Nix and it's different paradigm approach

Nix ecosystem projects and their basic overview and they use the fundamental paradigm to solve in those.

How a PF Declarative approach will be way better than any imperative system even with AI.

A where to start guide for this paradigm and a roadmap to learn more.

Overall the talk is aimed to make the audience do some first principle thinking and understand the way of Nix

References

Session Categories

Introducing a FOSS project or a new version of a popular project
Technology architecture
Engineering practice - productivity, debugging

Speakers

Vivekanandan KS DevOps and Nix Engineer | Freelance Consultant

Love FOSS, Nix, Linux, DevOps, Platform engineering, workflow optimizations,etc .

Love to collaborate or work or even just talk with like minded people.

Basically a geek who have a passion and love for computers

Vivekanandan KS
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekanandan-ks-4b913a318/