If you were to search the internet for recent articles about Perl, you might well be led to believe that the language hasn’t changed in the last twenty years. And, sadly, that’s a completely understandable belief as the major version number hasn’t changed since 1994.
Source: This is not your grandfather's Perl, an article by Dave Cross.
In this series of articles, I will discuss how some of the principles and techniques learnt from typed functional languages can be applied to Python1 to achieve the same results. We’ll see that, while Python famously eschews the functional paradigm, we can build pythonic(ish) equivalents relatively easily.
Source: Functional Python, Part I: Typopædia Pythonica, an article by Christopher Harrison.
Nix has been able to generate Docker images for several years now, however the typical approach to layering with Nix is to generate one fat image with all of the dependencies. This fat image offers no sharing, is slow to build, upload, and download.
In this post I talk about how I fix this problem and use Nix to automatically create multi-layered Docker images, allowing a high amount of caching between images.
Source: Optimising Docker Layers for Better Caching with Nix, an article by Graham Christensen.