# Determinate Systems

> Our goal for Determinate is to enable fearless innovation by bringing Nix to teams, providing a complete Nix-based workflow from installation through collaboration and CI to deployment.

## Blog posts

Posts from [our blog](https://determinate.systems/blog), in reverse chronological order:

- Introducing Determinate Secure Packages
- Changelog: new year, new Determinate Nix
- Changelog: a new command for visualizing active Nix builds and much more
- Changelog: a whole bevy of small improvements for Determinate Nix
- Nix flakes explained: what they solve, why they matter, and the future
- Changelog: introducing `nix nario`
- Determinate Nix: the recent past and the shining future
- Dropping upstream Nix from Determinate Nix Installer
- Parallel evaluation comes to Determinate Nix
- Changelog: build-time flake inputs and unauthenticated upgrades
- Changelog: Determinate now has a nix-darwin module, plus loads of performance perks
- Changelog: a native Linux builder for macOS
- Changelog: Determinate Nix 3.8.1 with important security updates
- Changelog: a faster `nix flake check`, improved flake locks, and lazy trees rolled out to 20% of users
- Changelog: faster CI, deep flake overrides, and a better `nix store delete` in Determinate Nix 3.7.0
- Changelog: lazy trees and security improvements
- FlakeHub now supports Semaphore CI
- Changelog: macOS Tahoe, lazy trees, and docs in Determinate Nix 3.6.6
- Bringing back the Magic Nix Cache Action
- Changelog: docs, diagnostics, and resilience improvements
- Changelog: improved support for self-hosted GitHub Actions runners
- Determinate Nix Action
- Changelog: introducing lazy trees
- Changelog: deprecating channels and indirect flake references
- Changelog: JSON logging, a new experience around hash mismatches, and more
- Best practices for Nix at work
- Determinate Nix 3.0
- Fetch artifacts directly from FlakeHub Cache using `fh fetch`
- Introducing Determinate AMIs for NixOS
- Changelog: version synchronization to 0.37.1
- Determinate is now compatible with nix-darwin
- Changelog: improved nix-darwin support for Determinate!
- Improved evaluation times with pre-resolved Nix store paths
- Supercharging Nix deployments with FlakeHub Cache
- End of life for the free tier of the Magic Nix Cache
- Changelog: customer binding, nix.conf, and yanked Nix 2.25.4
- Determinate Nix now supports migrating from other caches
- The future of software is Nix
- Nix at work: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes
- Announcing Determinate Nix
- Discontinuing support for macOS Monterey
- Fully automated Nix installation for macOS on AWS EC2
- Solving corporate TLS certificates for Nix on macOS
- Prepare Nix for macOS Sequoia
- Discontinuing support for i686-linux in the Determinate Nix Installer
- Parallel Nix evaluation
- Nix as a WebAssembly build tool
- On community in Nix
- Introducing FlakeHub Cache
- KVM on GitHub Actions
- A graphical installer for Nix
- Lessons from 1 million Nix Installs
- Nix Survival Mode: sheltering Nix from macOS upgrades
- FlakeHub updates: lightning-fast mirroring and webhook integrations
- Creating and modifying flakes using the FlakeHub CLI
- Experimental does not mean unstable
- `fh`: the CLI for FlakeHub
- Flake schemas: making flake outputs extensible
- Introducing FlakeHub
- Instrumenting Axum projects
- Introducing the Magic Nix Cache
- Introducing the Nix Flake Checker
- Declarative GNOME configuration with NixOS
- Packaging Open Policy Agent policies with Nix
- Extending NixOS configurations
- Nuenv: an experimental Nushell environment for Nix
- Moving stuff around with Nix
- Introducing the Determinate Nix Installer
- Introducing Zero To Nix
- Nix on the Steam Deck
- Deploying Nix-built containers to Kubernetes
- Streamline your GitHub Actions dependencies using Nix
- Make your QEMU 10 times faster with this one weird trick
- Using Nix to run software with no installation steps
- An invitation to Rust maintainers
- Effortless dev environments with Nix and direnv
- Building a highly optimized home environment with Nix
- Introducing Riff
- We want to make Nix better
- How to Use Hydra as your Deployment Source of Truth
- Announcing: Terraform Provider Hydra

## Projects

These other projects under the Determinate Systems umbrella have their own LLM-oriented manifests:

- Zero to Nix
- Determinate documentation
- FlakeHub

## Products

Our commercial offerings for enterprise Nix users:

Determinate Nix: business-class Nix for critical infrastructure: https://determinate.systems/nix
FlakeHub: privately share and cache flakes across your team: https://flakehub.com
FlakeHub Cache: a powerful new binary caching concept for Nix with federated authentication: https://docs.determinate.systems/flakehub/cache

## Open source projects

- Nix
- Determinate Nix Installer
- Magic Nix Cache
- Zero to Nix
- FlakeHub CLI
- Nix Flake Checker
- Update Nix Flake Lock

## Webinars

- Sneak peek: Determinate Secure Packages
- Nix flakes in practice: what they solve and why they matter
- How Determinate Systems uses Nix
- Nix at enterprise scale with Determinate
- Inside Determinate Nix: the best way to Nix at work
- Seamless Nix deployments with FlakeHub
- Up and running with FlakeHub Cache
- Best practices for Nix at work

## Other formats

Additional LLM-oriented manifests for this site:

- [`llms.txt`](https://determinate.systems/llms.txt) (the main version)
- [`llms-full.txt`](https://determinate.systems/llms-full.txt) (complete content in one file)