FlakeHub Cache
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nix binary cache
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0 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.
Idea: 0 for, 2 against
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Magic Nix Cache design persists paths individually, reducing setup cost
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The problem people often run in to when persisting the nix store is that it can be very large, and updates often. This adds a significant tax on setup/teardown time and sometimes…
grhmc on HN
Objections
Unclear target market; existing artifact stores, identity and secrets tools already cover compliance needs
From 2 comments
Thanks for the response, Graham. I think I'm still missing something. By all accounts, I and my organization should be in your target market, but there are a few barriers: - I've…
flurie on HNCongrats on the product reveal! It's exciting to see all these things getting announced right around NixCon, and I wish I could have made it. I'm having trouble seeing the…
flurie on HN
Persisting the Nix store in CI is slow and costly due to size and updates
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The problem people often run in to when persisting the nix store is that it can be very large, and updates often. This adds a significant tax on setup/teardown time and sometimes…
grhmc on HN
Lazy trees speedup was not enough for some users
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Thanks for the response, Graham. I think I'm still missing something. By all accounts, I and my organization should be in your target market, but there are a few barriers: - I've…
flurie on HN
Requests
Support for CircleCI
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I've been trying to gradually introduce Nix more into my development.[0] One roadblock I haven't been able to overcome is integrating Nix in CI. In my case, I use CircleCI. I…
mtlynch on HNI'd love to find out how it compares! We're not quite ready to support CircleCI, but when we are -- want to do a test? You could hop on to our discord:…
grhmc on HN
Performance comparison with Cachix and default Nix cache in CI
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I've been trying to gradually introduce Nix more into my development.[0] One roadblock I haven't been able to overcome is integrating Nix in CI. In my case, I use CircleCI. I…
mtlynch on HN
Questions
How does FlakeHub Cache CI performance compare to default Nix cache and Cachix
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I've been trying to gradually introduce Nix more into my development.[0] One roadblock I haven't been able to overcome is integrating Nix in CI. In my case, I use CircleCI. I…
mtlynch on HN
Who is the target audience given existing compliance setups
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Congrats on the product reveal! It's exciting to see all these things getting announced right around NixCon, and I wish I could have made it. I'm having trouble seeing the…
flurie on HN
Alternatives named
Cachix
From 2 comments
I've been trying to gradually introduce Nix more into my development.[0] One roadblock I haven't been able to overcome is integrating Nix in CI. In my case, I use CircleCI. I…
mtlynch on HNWhat worked great for me for speeding up CI was using Cachix + namespace.so. This works so well I moved all my personal and our company CI to GitHub Actions. With "it works so…
zupo on HN
Magic Nix Cache GitHub Action
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I'd be quite curious to see how using the Magic Nix Cache Action compares to your setup in terms of performance: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/magic-nix-cache-action…
biggestlou on HNThe problem people often run in to when persisting the nix store is that it can be very large, and updates often. This adds a significant tax on setup/teardown time and sometimes…
grhmc on HN
garnix
From 1 comment
This is part of why we built https://garnix.io/
jkarni on HN
namespace.so runners with Cachix
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What worked great for me for speeding up CI was using Cachix + namespace.so. This works so well I moved all my personal and our company CI to GitHub Actions. With "it works so…
zupo on HN
Buildless
From 1 comment
If you want to do caching but you aren't on Nix, check out Buildless: https://less.build
sgammon on HN