Simple-twitter: A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in a single file

Re:Simple-twitter: A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in... by anonytrary on Thursday November 21, 2019 @10:56PM (#21602287)

I don't think declarative architecture and kubernetes are mutually exclusive. Seems like you could write a declarative file (terraform, cloudformation, etc.) that deploys a dockerized app to a kubernetes cluster in AWS.

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Re:Simple-twitter: A bare-bones Twitter clone implemented in... by arianvanp on Friday November 22, 2019 @07:12AM (#21604851)

Thing is; nixos has been architected for being declarative from the start. Whilst Kubernetes is a stateful REST API.

Sure you can emulate a declarative view on top of a mutable thing (Think React and virtualdom), but having a declarative core makes declarative deployments easier to manage and more elegant.

E.g. in Kubernetes automatically deleting a resource is still hard; It's hard to figure out when something is not "used" anymore.

In nix, you simply run `nix garbage-collect` and all the things that are not referenced by your declaration are automatically deleted.

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