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Appreciate the feedback. Will edit the post and check for other grammar errors

Agreed, reproducibility is a huge benefit. Being able to spin up a new machine quickly with a config you already know works is an awesome feeling.

I could never get around on longhorn or any of the other "lightweight" K8 distros. I guess that's why I spent time setting up NixOS and writing this post. Okay nice, seems like var…

This hits the nail on the head. Well said. I really like being able to manage the managing and host machine in one configuration. It's a blessing from an Op's perspective.

Troubleshooting Nix is mind-numbing. For some of the benefits, it's the price that is need to be paid

Thanks for the perspective. I mainly use NixOS to run my server's not personal machines. I can see why it can be a frustrating experience for a machine that you just want to run pe…

Yeah I agree it's manual but it takes about 5 minutes to SCP the password onto the machine. I have some playbooks I setup to creating a new machine. All in all it takes about 10 mi…

Nice, would love to know how it goes. What kind of storage and DB's are you planning to work with?

To each their own. When K8's is managed it's awesome. I would like to do without the headache of dealing with K8's installation or some orchestrator layer. I can "schedule" my on a…

I'm using Cap'N Proto in a message broker application(LcuidMQ) I'm building for serialization. It has allowed me to created client applications rather quickly. There are some quirk…

I've been working on something that may fit your criteria. The API is kafka-like and it's whole goal is to provide an easy to use local-first stream datastore/data-engine. It curre…

I'm a dev-ops engineer by day. I creating a simple to standup and use message queue(similar to kafka and rabbitmq) in Golang. As of right now, the project is solely to learn more a…