feat(users/flokli): add NixCon 2023 presentation
This adds the materials for the talk held at NixCon 2023, Darmstadt. It seems it's not really possible to export a PDF out of this, at least I couldn't get reveal-md to do it properly. The video recordings live on https://media.ccc.de/v/nixcon-2023-35254-tvix and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j67prAPYScY . Change-Id: Id27dc8c8637ffd455981141383c54d8d1484679e Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/9750 Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
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digraph {
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Builder
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Store
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Evaluator
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}
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attrpath
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: attrpath '.' attr {
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$$ = $1; $1->push_back(AttrName(data->symbols.create($3)));
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}
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| attrpath '.' string_attr
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{ $$ = $1;
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ExprString * str = dynamic_cast<ExprString *>($3);
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if (str) {
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$$->push_back(AttrName(data->symbols.create(str->s)));
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delete str;
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digraph {
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bgcolor="transparent"
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node [fillcolor="lightgrey",style="filled"]
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tvix_cli
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tvix_eval
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nix_compat
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tvix_serde
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tvix_store
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tvix_cli -> tvix_store
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tvix_cli -> nix_compat
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tvix_cli -> tvix_eval
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tvix_store -> nix_compat
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tvix_eval -> nix_compat
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tvix_serde -> tvix_eval
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}
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{ depot, pkgs, ... }:
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let
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inherit (pkgs)
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fontconfig qrencode runCommand stdenv;
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mkQr = url: runCommand "qrcode.png" { } ''
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${qrencode}/bin/qrencode -o $out -t SVG -s 5 \
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--background=fafafa \
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--foreground=000000 \
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${url}
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'';
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in
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stdenv.mkDerivation {
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name = "2023-nixcon-tvix";
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src = ./.;
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FONTCONFIG_FILE = pkgs.makeFontsConf {
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fontDirectories = with pkgs; [ jetbrains-mono fira fira-code fira-mono lato ];
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};
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PUPPETEER_EXECUTABLE_PATH = "${pkgs.chromium}/bin/chromium";
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PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD = "1";
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nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.reveal-md pkgs.graphviz ];
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buildPhase = ''
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cp ${depot.tvix.logo}/logo.png tvix-logo.png
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dot -Tsvg crate-deps.dot > crate-deps.svg
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cp ${mkQr "https://flokli.de"} qrcode-flokli.svg
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cp ${mkQr "https://tvix.dev"} qrcode-tvix.svg
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mkdir -p $out
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reveal-md --static $out presentation.md
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reveal-md --print $out/slides.pdf presentation.md
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cp tvixbolt.webm $out
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'';
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}
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---
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author:
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- Florian Klink
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date: 2023-09-09
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title: "Tvix: Status update"
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theme: moon
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revealOptions:
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transition: 'fade'
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---
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# Tvix: Status update
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![Tvix Logo](tvix-logo.png)
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2023-09-09
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Florian Klink
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---
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## Whoami
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- flokli
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- nixpkgs contributor since 2018, maintaining systemd, nsncd and some
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more stuff
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- Freelance Nix/DevOps consultant
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- I spend too much time on computers :-)
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---
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## What is Tvix?
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- A new implementation of Nix
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- modular
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- written in Rust
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- developed in the [TVL](https://tvl.fyi) monorepo
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- subtree exported to [github:tvlfyi/tvix](https://github.com/tvlfyi/tvix)
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---
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## Structure
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- strong separation between **Evaluator**, **Store** and **Builder**
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- Defined interfaces between different components (Protobuf/gRPC) <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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- Allows adding to/combining with your own components <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" --> A lot of helper code for some of the Nix internals in the `nix-compat` crate
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Note: Derivation types, serializers. NAR writers, nixbase32 enc/dec, Nix Hash function, stringparsing etc.
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----
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![crate-deps.svg](crate-deps.svg)
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---
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## Evaluator: Design
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Nix code is parsed via [rnix](https://github.com/nix-community/rnix-parser)
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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AST traversal, generate bytecode (with some transformations)
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Bytecode is executed by an abstract machine with a Nix-specific instruction set
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----
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## Evaluator: Design
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Builtins are separate from the "evaluator core"
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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inject your own builtins
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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this includes `builtins.derivation`!
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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IO is nicely abstracted away
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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We can run a Nixlang subset without IO in wasm (see [tvixbolt](https://tvixbolt.tvl.su/)),
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or parse Nix into a config struct with `tvix-serde`
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----
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<!-- <video class="r-stretch" src="./tvixbolt.webm"></video> -->
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<a href="./tvixbolt.webm">Tvixbolt Demo</a>
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----
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### Evaluator: Current Work
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Current goal: **evaluate nixpkgs the same way as Nix does**
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Checked by comparing the calculated output paths, which checks correctness of all \"parent\" output paths too.
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Required implementing a lot of Nix internals in `nix-compat`, and `tvix-store` (A-Term, hash modulo, NAR writer/hasher)
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Note: Getting output hashing correct, and exposing this in a re-usable fashion took quite some iterations to get right.
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----
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### Evaluator: Current Work (cont.)
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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🎉 Already correct for (and continously checked by CI on every commit):
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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`stdenv`, `hello`
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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`pkgsCross.aarch64-multiplatform.stdenv`, `pkgsCross.aarch64-multiplatform.hello`
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Some work left for more complicated expressions
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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infinite recursion [when inheriting from a `builtins.tryEval` multiple times](https://b.tvl.fyi/281)
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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small details around file imports
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Not too much performance finetuning until we're correct first.
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----
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### Evaluator: Demo
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[![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/MH4tuVPLsKewJSGJUYEyIKUpj.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/MH4tuVPLsKewJSGJUYEyIKUpj)
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---
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## Store: Design
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Uses a very different underlying data model:
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Nix stores on a per- `StorePath` granularity
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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tvix-store uses a Merkle DAG of directories, similar to git trees, but with [BLAKE3](https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3) digests as pointers.
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Compat layer in front to still render/calculate NAR on demand where needed
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Substitution, caching, ... possible to describe via composition/layering
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----
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![tvix-store graph](tvix-store-graph.svg)
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----
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### Store: Advantages
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Less downloading of data that didn't change
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Less duplicate data on disk/storage
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Inherently content-addressed, so P2P substitution possible
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Allows doing verified blob streaming ([BAO](https://github.com/oconnor663/bao), [bao-tree](https://github.com/n0-computer/bao-tree))
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Protocol has some \"smarter\" methods to avoid roundtrips, but could all be statically pre-rendered
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Very little data that needs to be fetched from a trusted party (or be signed)
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Note: Our way of addressing blobs by their raw blake3 digest is natively compatible with iroh, the IPFS Re-implementation in Rust
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### Store: Status
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Whole Merkle-based store implementation (and Nix NAR compat layer) is there
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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exercised by the output path CI tests, and a test suite.
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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three backends (Sled, in-memory, gRPC client)
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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more backends and more test suites planned.
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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FUSE filesystem to expose the store (to Tvix Builders, \"appliances\") <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Note: backends: RocksDB, sqlite, s3. fuse: lazy fetching of build input files | think about a minimal initrd to bring up network and mount the store, then run any closure.
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### Store: Demo
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[![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/YFB9yycHdx0OUH9N0WdAkIYua.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/YFB9yycHdx0OUH9N0WdAkIYua)
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### Store: Status (cont.)
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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More work on store composition needed (necessary for substition and caching)
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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More work on more granular blob substititon needed.
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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More work on bridges with Nix needed
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Get Nix to talk to a tvix-store
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Expose existing binary caches to tvix-store
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### Builder: Design
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Build requests/Build protocol is less Nix-specific
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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allows reusing builders for other usages (non-sandboxed builds, other build systems, playing with other addressing mechanisms)
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Distinction between a **specific build attempt** and the **general build recipe**
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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allows keeping metadata about failed builds
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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stats (memory/cpu consumption)
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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comparing different produced binary outputs (r11y)
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### Builder: Design
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Invididual builds can be run in your desired container/virt engine/scheduler, as long as it speaks the same Build API
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Build API composition/proxying, similar to Store composition
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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allows "unattended building" (evaluate nixpkgs locally and send all build requests to a remote builder)
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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allows tailing logs from currently/already running builds
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### Builder: Status
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Dummy Builder implementation in `go-nix` (using OCI)
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Some scribble notes on the Build Protocol
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Glue code to trigger builds from inside `builtins.derivation` needs to be written
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Builder implementation (using `systemd-nspwan` or some container engine needs to be written.
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Web interface to visualize store contents and build graphs/builds/logs
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## Contributing
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Join the IRC channel (`#tvl` on `hackint`), bridged to Matrix and XMPP
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Check our issue tracker
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Try to use it and tell us how you broke it!
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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Add various Nix bits to `nix-compat`
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Note: or if you like what you seeing and want to sponsor parts, that's also cool :-)
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# Thanks to...
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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all TVL contributors (some drive-by, some long-term contributors)
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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countless Nix community members for their input on the architecture and rubberducking
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- <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
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NLNET and others to sponsor parts of this
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# Questions?
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<style>
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.container{
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display: flex;
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}
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.col{
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flex: 1;
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</style>
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<div class="container">
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<div class="col">
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Florian Klink / <a href="https://flokli.de">flokli.de</a><br />
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<img src="qrcode-flokli.svg" />
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</div>
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<div class="col">
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Tvix / <a href="https://tvix.dev">tvix.dev</a><br />
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<img src="qrcode-tvix.svg" />
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</div>
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