Cedric Charly - Distributed Systems

[Mark Otto @mdo]

For the past few months, @pierrecomputer has been working on a brand new primitive, Trees. Just like Diffs, it’s an incredibly fast, modern, and beautiful library for rendering lists of files and folders.

[Cedric Charly - Distributed Systems @cedricgc]

I think often how different our software dev process would be if the popular VCS could easily support checking in all our build tools

[Hacker News 20 @betterhn20]

How CUE Wins (2021) https://t.co/0yNEnDZaeR (https://t.co/avGOhOa4TS)

[Cedric Charly - Distributed Systems @cedricgc]

My power grows when I start trending on HN

I can feel it

[Cedric Charly - Distributed Systems @cedricgc]

Would love a video on debugging a Nix flake

[Cedric Charly - Distributed Systems @cedricgc]

https://t.co/CUraFV6Q5C

Monorepo and stacked diffs support is what I wanted for so long.

Source control is at the root of software development, can't shift left more than this. I expect Sapling to have knock on effects on how we build tools and develop software going forward.

[Cedric Charly - Distributed Systems @cedricgc]

@julianeon NFC and airtags will be much more utilized now that they are so cheap

[Cedric Charly - Distributed Systems @cedricgc]

@jawnsy @solomonstre hugo with netlify to deploy directly from a git repo

[Cedric Charly - Distributed Systems @cedricgc]

Also check out https://t.co/Nez4vKXDhI

I think I lacked a theory of mind on how to approach documentation and the diataxis system cleared it up immediately.

CUE will adopt this methodology going forward for docs, which I know people have wanted to see for awhile😄

[Cedric Charly - Distributed Systems @cedricgc]

We had our first CUE community call focused on documentation: https://t.co/OZfqp2FDjy

Highly recommend watching. I think what we discussed will have wide effects on how we build software in a few years

[Cedric Charly - Distributed Systems @cedricgc]

@sqs @Steve_Yegge @sourcegraph Huge pickup, congrats

[Cedric Charly - Distributed Systems @cedricgc]

@JplusCplusM @verdverm https://t.co/Zw43U9BpPJ

I cannot make the community call tomorrow, but I think code gen and working with ecosystems like IaC should be added as a discussion topic

[CUE @cue_lang]

We are excited to confirm Tuesday 4th October at 1530 UTC for our first CUE Community Call!

For more details subscribe to https://t.co/PvdomW945K

[Cedric Charly - Distributed Systems @cedricgc]

@verdverm @JplusCplusM @HashiCorp @crossplane_io Im starting to lean more that CUE should do reconciliation closer to the runtime:
https://t.co/0J4HXoOYqf

[Cedric Charly - Distributed Systems @cedricgc]

The natural endpoint for a configuration language is an eventual configuration database

Truly massive configurations can flip all the tradeoffs on its head

Details like storage of keys, sharding the structure, and reconciling new data will be done first party in the language

[Cedric Charly - Distributed Systems @cedricgc]

@JplusCplusM @verdverm I will QRT this soon diving into more detail and what needs to be built, but in short:
- CUE libraries to model and add value on top of tools
- Sync infrastructure to merge and manage config

[Cedric Charly - Distributed Systems @cedricgc]

@JplusCplusM @verdverm Great question

I will say that specifically for IaC more tooling needs to be built out for using CUE to be a great experience

If you are comfortable with the idea of creating some automation to have "configuration builds" from CUE -> JSON that feeds into TF keep going

[Cedric Charly - Distributed Systems @cedricgc]

@moseskagan Ah I just looked it up and MMA incorporates strikes on top of grappling

[Cedric Charly - Distributed Systems @cedricgc]

@moseskagan how high is the risk of hits to the head with sparring?

[Cedric Charly - Distributed Systems @cedricgc]

The natural endpoint for a configuration language is an eventual configuration database

Truly massive configurations can flip all the tradeoffs on its head

Details like storage of keys, sharding the structure, and reconciling new data will be done first party in the language

[Cedric Charly - Distributed Systems @cedricgc]

I will need to dig into Riff to understand the strategy, but Riff is willing to integrate with a language ecosystem and interface with Nix, instead of the Bazel/Nix approach of modeling the world in its own system as a first step.

https://t.co/kjpgDsmr7e

[Cedric Charly - Distributed Systems @cedricgc]

I like the framing https://t.co/vqcV9KWK5R has for Nix.

Cross-language dependencies is a massive pain point no matter the stack, so this is a strong place for Nix to make inroads for the average developer.

h/t @grhmc