The presentation will take place in Room 101 on Thursday, March 5, 2026 - 11:00 to 11:25

Managed services face unsustainable container bloat: images balloon to multi-GB artifacts with growth. Traditional "shift-left" approaches force an impossible tradeoff: bloated monolithic images or fragmented specialized images. Runtime package layering resolves this: containers provide isolation and security while remaining small; Flox environments deliver tool freshness without compromising security. This separation achieves stability through pinned packages and freshness through Nix/Flox.