Alex Decious
I work on build systems and CI infrastructure for Shopify's monorepo using Nix, and run my own infrastructure as a systems lab for compute-heavy builds, distributed systems experiments, local LLMs, and hosting for myself and others.
Session
MicroVMs make it easy to give every service, project, or person dedicated NixOS machines. We will use microvm.nix to build dev boxes, game servers, and sensitive services on hardware we control. Because each guest is simply a NixOS configuration, it can be reused, extended, rebuilt, and shared.
We will compare MicroVM isolation with other options, explain its limitations, and show how to compose useful machines from ordinary NixOS modules for yourself and those around you. We will finish with a look beyond a single host: how to preserve and back up these machines, then place them across hardware you own.