Susan Potter

Nix :: The magic wand for perfect software environments

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Functional Operations (Functional Programming at Comcast Labs Connect)

Maintaining configurations for different nodes and cloud resources in a [micro]service architecture has been an absolute nightmare in the past. The separation between CI/CD environments and production configuration has led to unpredictable results and false positives. Deploying code to staging and production has often resulted in unforeseen consequences that can't be identified beforehand, leaving users frustrated when problems arise. This session introduces the Nix and …

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Functional and Reactive Operations

If we were starting greenfield development of a service or web application today we would likely employ a number of practices and design choices that are known to optimise application responsiveness, resiliency, elasticity, and/or composability. Delivering our reactive applications on top of predictable infrastructure will set our project up for success. Some of us don't have that luxury. We must provision, deploy, and operationally maintain legacy monolithic Rails web …