Introduction

Image from Jurassic Park © Universal

What is this?

Nedryland is a collection of utilities and a build system for microservice architecture solutions. Nedryland is built upon Nix. Nix is a functional package manager for Unix systems that promises reproducible and deterministic builds and build outputs. There is also nixpkgs, a collection of over 80 000 packages for the Nix package manager that can be used to get dependencies for builds etc.

There is also NixOS which builds on the ideas of Nix to create a whole Linux distribution where all configuration of the OS is also described in Nix and becomes 100% deterministic and without side effects.

What's up with the name?

Dennis Nedry is one of the main antagonists in the original Jurassic Park movie. His computer system for orchestrating the park is called Nedryland JP. A screenshot of this magnificent system can be seen above.