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Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production
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Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production
Southern California Linux Expo
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- Presented by Aneesh Agrawal, Software Engineer at Anthropic
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Cloud and DevOpsSystems programmingDocker and containersScaling and large-scale architectureTerraform and infrastructure as code
Aneesh Agrawal explains how Anthropic replaced slow Docker image pulls with a highly-parallel native Nix fetch and cache hierarchy.
Talk by Aneesh Agrawal socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/presentations/docker-was-too-sl… Kubernetes means containers - but container images stop scaling once you hit 25+ GB, even if you’re building them with Nix. Learn how Anthropic took production startup times from minutes to sub-second with a multi-level, replicated cache hierarchy. We’ll deep dive into nix-sidecar: our custom tool to escape Docker, replacing slow image pulls with highly-parallel native Nix fetches, cached on every node. This talk is for anyone interested in faster deploys or advanced Nix usage!Why it's here
1 person recommends thisWhat people say. Recommended for its practical insights into using Nix at scale to replace Docker.