Oct 20, 2025Alex David, Julian K. Arni, Sönke Hahn
Benchmarking Nix CIs
Nix makes CIs easy to compare; we benchmarked the main Nix CIs.
It's been said (including by us) that Nix is a great way to prevent vendor lock-in on CI, since at their core any Nix CI is doing the same thing. This also means it should be possible to accurately benchmark these CIs.
So that's what we did. We picked some well-known open source projects that have Nix already set up, forked them, and ran various different CIs on the same commits.
You can see the results, and a lot more details, here.
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Oct 29, 2025Alex David and Julian K. Arni
Solving the issues with remote building in Nix
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With most caches, you are giving a lot of people a lot of access
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A response to Gerd Zellweger's "The Pain that is GitHub Actions"