Yes, the Nix ecosystem makes running both servers and services much easier than any other tools I have used. I describe the deployment I run with it here: http

Yes, the Nix ecosystem makes running both servers and services much easier than any other tools I have used. I describe the deployment I run with it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21468506 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21468506 Nix is not typed (it would be slightly better if it were), but everything is evaluated before it hits your servers which allows for lots of static checks. I started writing a tutorial on NixOps here if you want to learn it: https://github.com/nh2/nixops-tutorial https://github.com/nh2/nixops-tutorial (only has 1 part so far, I'd like to show how to bootstrap a Consul cluster and distributed file system next).