Sam is a software engineer with a passion for developer experience, focusing on building intuitive, delightful development environments. He currently works at Anthropic.

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Nix Builds 🤝 K8s Dev Environments: A Love Hate Relationship in 5 Acts

At Anthropic, developers expect Nix builds to Just Work on their K8s dev environments. But Nix's builds demand sandboxing support.
This is the war story of "just" enabling sandboxing: upgrading K8s, deploying user namespaces, monkey-patching container runtimes, and rearchitecting our Docker stack.
 

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