NixCon 2022

Nix and legacy enterprise software development: an unlikely match made in heaven
, Main track (Gym)

This talk is supposed to demonstrate a nice side-effect of being able to build old Nix expressions and even having a binary cache with the build artifacts available: for the data migration from a legacy project we had to debug a flash-based component. Even in 2021 where the Flash player is dead and unavailable it was trivial to revive this piece of old software with Nix (and web.archive.org).


Do you allow your talk to be recorded? – yes What level of experience in Nix is the talk addressed to?

Mid-level

I'm working as a systems administrator, software developer and Nix consultant for Mayflower GmbH. As an active member of the ecosystem I contribute back whatever is useful and maintain miscellaneous components for 5 years now.