Nix-based development environments at Shopify (reprise)
Over the past year at Shopify we've undergone a lot of changes internally. We moved from cloud development to local development, multirepo to monorepo, and Homebrew / Apt to Nix. Today, the majority of development is being done inside Nix-based environments. Some may recall that Shopify was using Nix back in 2019[1], so what happened?
This talk will cover:
- Why that effort stalled
- How devenv reignited interest in Nix
- How we approached incrementally migrating a huge collection of projects
- Where we're at today, and lessons learned along the way
- The many benefits Nix has brought
- The challenges of supporting a large polygot org with developers working at every layer of the stack
- Where we're headed
Josh Heinrichs
Working on developer tooling at Shopify from Saskatoon, Canada.