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A Nix store is three functions

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-09-15 Cached

The article explains that a Nix store can be implemented using only three simple HTTP functions, enabling static file servers like GitHub Pages to act as Nix binary caches.

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Fastly Speedtest Test

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-09-10

A Fastly test result demonstrates the cache fetch speed achievable with the official Nix binary cache.

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Nix's Substituter List Is Not a Routing Table

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-05-25 Cached

A blog post explaining the performance limitations of Nix's serialized binary cache lookup and introducing ncro, a small Rust proxy that races upstream caches in parallel to reduce latency.

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