danderson, 
I'm noticing that, to a first approximation, nix and cloud-native container things are on opposite ends of an alignment chart.
nix: very hard to learn, but once you do it's pretty robust at what it does
containers: pretty websites and 3-line get starteds, and they all seem to fall over with some showstopper bug in the first five minutes
Kind of ironic that the systems built to let people ship their desktops to prod, only seem to work on the devs' desktops.
