Great post on the issues of Docker's linear layering method (which a tweet[1] by the author of the post also explains well independently of computers) and how t

Great post on the issues of Docker's linear layering method (which a tweet[1] by the author of the post also explains well independently of computers) and how to improve on it with Nix. The "old" way of building Docker images with Nix also provided some of these benefits, but for quick builds often ended up being slower due to the dependency on qemu. This is an awesome improvement on that! I'd recommend people building & deploying a lot of Docker images (especially in languages with many dependencies on native libraries and such, which can be tricky to get right but which Nix mostly just handles for you) to see if building images with Nix could improve your workflow! [1]: https://twitter.com/grhmc/status/1046529919897886720 https://twitter.com/grhmc/status/1046529919897886720