You're going to have outages in production. They're inevitable. The question is how to best minimize outages, both their frequency and duration. Common wi...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21023181

Sharing some lessons I learned from 10 years/millions of users in production. I’ll be in the comments if anyone has any questions!

I hope this series will be useful to the self-hosted and small web crowds—tips for tools to pick and the basics of server management.

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I think fans of Nix and NixOS would agree.

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Is it too late for, “I use nix btw”? I use it at home and for development.

I planned to focus this blog series on ol’ faithful (Debian), but I could definitely see writing articles on how to use Nix and OpenBSD if people find it helpful.

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Well, I guess nixos itself isn’t too overcomplicated, but fun begins when you start layering abstractions over abstractions 😁

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That’s interesting. I never got started with nix because I thought it’d be too complicated. So looking it up again…

Why would you think Nix has any bearing on a production environment?

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