Jade Lovelace
Jade is a Computer Engineering student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. They are currently on internship working on financial software using Haskell and Nix at Mercury. While they're not hacking on tools or Posting, they like to bake and do pottery.
Jade uses Nix and NixOS extensively at work and at home, particularly for development environments and Haskell.
Their Web site can be found at https://jade.fyi
Sessions
Big closure sizes bog down deploys by wasting time and space shipping around unnecessary bits, particularly with Docker containers. Nix provides tools to analyze closures, but both the graphical and textual methods leave something to be desired, especially when dealing with NixOS system closures with hundreds of derivations.
I'll demonstrate debugging excessive closure size of a Docker image of an open source NodeJS application, bringing the image size down from 300MB to around 100MB.
In this session, I'll introduce a new tool I've built that can show system closures graphically as network-graphs, making debugging the causes of excessive closure size easy, irrespective of the number of derivations involved.