I work at a company that develops software for other companies. We have a program that can allocate time and money towards researching a use of...
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I work at a company that develops software for other companies. We have a program that can allocate time and money towards researching a use of technology. I want to apply for research on Nix integrations and adoption. Either OS or package manager. To get approved I need to explain possible gains from using Nix.

Can you share your ideas of:

  • integrating Nix into existing developer and ops workflows
  • processes that can’t be implemented without Nix
  • Nix advantages over Docker (not basic ones though, like potential Docker reproducibility issues)

At the moment I struggle to find any advantages of adopting Nix in a mature company when there are well known and widely used solutions like Docker. Everything I managed to google doesn’t promise enough to justify spending on this research.

Really hope that community has already figured it out and I would be able to launch this initiative with your help.