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Nix & NixOS

We've been building with Nix since the early days. We maintain core ecosystem tools, contribute upstream, and help teams go from first evaluation to production deployment.

01 WHAT IS NIX
$ man nix

Nix is a package manager that builds software reproducibly — every dependency pinned, every build identical across machines. NixOS is a Linux distribution built entirely on Nix, where every package, service, and configuration is declared in code.

That means infrastructure you can audit, rebuild from scratch, and roll back in seconds. No more "works on my machine." No more snowflake servers. No more dependency hell.

If you're evaluating Nix, already using it and hitting walls, or running NixOS in production and need expert support — we're the team that wrote the tools you're probably already using.

02 WHY NIX
$ nix why-nix --verbose

Reproducible builds

Every build produces the same output regardless of the machine running it. Pin dependencies exactly. No surprises in production that didn't happen in CI.

Atomic upgrades & rollbacks

System updates are atomic. If something breaks, roll back to the previous generation in one command. No partial states, no broken systems.

Declarative everything

Your entire system — packages, services, users, firewall rules — described in a single configuration file. Version it, review it, reproduce it anywhere.

Dev environments that just work

nix develop gives every developer the exact same toolchain. No "install this version of Python" instructions. Clone the repo, enter the shell, start working.

03 WHAT WE DO
$ ls ./nix-services/

Nix adoption

We help teams evaluate and adopt Nix — from setting up flakes and dev shells to migrating CI pipelines and deploying NixOS in production.

NixOS infrastructure

Production NixOS deployments with proper module architecture, secrets management, automated provisioning, and monitoring. Bare metal or cloud.

Build system optimization

Slow builds killing your team's velocity? We optimize Nix expressions, set up binary caches, parallelize builds, and make your CI pipeline fast.

Nix packaging

Need software packaged for Nix? We package applications, libraries, and toolchains — handling cross-compilation, custom patches, and upstream contributions to nixpkgs. From proprietary vendor SDKs to complex build systems, we've packaged it all.

Migration & rescue

Inherited a messy Nix setup? We've seen it all — broken flakes, unmaintained overlays, pinned-to-ancient-nixpkgs configs. We'll clean it up and document it.

04 TOOLS WE MAINTAIN
$ ls ./tools/ --maintained

Many of the tools your Nix stack depends on — we built them and we maintain them. When you work with Numtide, you're working with the people who wrote the code.

flake-utils
The standard utility library for Nix flakes.
treefmt
The universal code formatter multiplexer.
system-manager
Manage system config with Nix on any distro.
blueprint
Standard project structure for Nix.
nixos-anywhere
Install NixOS anywhere via SSH.
buildbot-nix
CI/CD for Nix projects using Buildbot.
05 FROM THE BLOG
$ grep ./blog/ --nix
Loading Nix posts...
Read more on the blog →
06 WHAT CLIENTS SAY
$ cat ./reviews/ --nix
"Among the very best teams I've worked with. Foremost experts in their craft who go out of their way to ensure success."
Sam Rose — Postgres team manager at Supabase
"Helped us profile kernel locking issues with no prior experience. Happy to use them again for any level of work."
Sarah Brofeldt (srhb) — DBC Digital A/S
07 NIX SPECIALISTS
$ ls ./team/ --nix-core
Jonas Chevalier
Jonas Chevalier
Creator of direnv (14k+ stars). Shaped how the world uses Nix flakes.
Jörg Thalheim
Jörg Thalheim
Author of nixos-anywhere, disko, sops-nix, and a dozen more NixOS tools.
Brian McGee
Brian McGee
Rewrote treefmt in Go. Built nixos-facter for automatic hardware detection.
Richard Brežák
Richard Brežák
Created NixNG, a minimal Nix-based Linux distro. Co-maintains buildbot-nix.
Ramses de Norre
Ramses de Norre
Primary author of system-manager. Bringing Nix config to every Linux distro.
Paul Haerle
Paul Haerle
Maintains disko and nixos-anywhere. Self-described cloud plumber.
Félix Berthault
Félix Berthault
Built nix-gl-host to fix OpenGL on Nix. NixOS infrastructure contributor.
Pádraic Ó Mhuiris
Pádraic Ó Mhuiris
Deep in the Nix module system. Building secrets management and flake-parts tooling.
$ nix run .#get-in-touch

Need Nix expertise?

Whether you're adopting Nix, scaling NixOS in production, or untangling a messy setup — let's talk.

Or email us directly: hello@numtide.com