I’m a Staff Software Engineer in a Fortune 500. I’ve delivered a multitude of complex projects to production. Trying to setup Nix made me feel dumb and incompetent.
A little off-topic, but does anyone know if there's been good research about the long term effects of having a screen a few millimeters away, beaming photons to your retina continuously?
Having built a Rails app with my team that handles ~76k rpm on peak days (99% of responses within 90ms), I've learned that you scale your architecture, not your framework. Rails is just fine.