cbrewster
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platform engineer @ replit.com
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Comment · 4 years ago
Now you need to batch your requests to your intermediate server
Comment · 4 years ago
You can talk to support about missing the notification about your reservation and they'll still let you put in an order.
Comment · 4 years ago
Fair, but its still a real issue and solved in a similar way: Nix has finer grained reproducibility -- not only at the environment level but also at the derivation level. Being able to pick and choose which dependencies to update while ensuring other packages are left exactly the same is valuable to us.
Comment · 4 years ago
For context, I'm referencing our (legacy) base image for projects on Replit:
Polygott (https://github.com/replit/polygott/).
The image contains dependencies needed for 50+ languages. This means repls by default are packed with lots of commonly used tools. However, the image is massive, takes a long time to build, and is difficult to deploy.
Unfortunately, slimming the image down is not really an option: people rely on all the tools we provide out of the box.