Somehow I had missed this beautiful in memoriam for Eelco Visser in April this year, written by Sander van der Burg. Also nicely covers Eelco’s (and TU Delft’s) role in the development of Nix and NixOS, and, of course, Sander’s DisNix. http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2022/04/in-memoriam-eelco-visser-1966-2022.html

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#SanderVanDerBurg : « A more realistic public #Disnix example »

« Why should I use #Disnix and why would it be useful? The answer is that #Disnix becomes useful when you have a system that can be decomposed into #distributable services, such as web services, #RESTful services, web applications or processes. »
https://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-more-realistic-public-disnix-example.html
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#Disnix is a distributed service deployment toolset, featuring:
- declarative distributed systems modeling
- inter-dependencies of services (with #Nix ensuring complete intra-dependencies of packages).
- atomic upgrades and rollbacks
- garbage collection removing all obsolete components
- deployment into a network of various types of machines, running various OS
- support for modules
- taking and restoring snapshots for backup and migration
https://nixos.org/disnix/