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About Datadrivet Infrastructure

Our Philosophy

The Datadrivet infrastructure is designed around the principle of reproducible development environments. We believe that every developer should be able to clone a repository and have a fully functional development environment within minutes, without manual setup or configuration.

Technology Stack

Visual Overview

Core Tools

• Nix - A powerful package manager that ensures reproducible builds and deployments
• Devenv - A developer-friendly wrapper around Nix that simplifies environment management
• Direnv - Automatically loads environment variables and activates development environments

Why This Stack?

1. Reproducibility - Every developer gets exactly the same environment
2. Isolation - Each project has its own dependencies without conflicts
3. Cross-platform - Works consistently across Linux, macOS, and Windows (WSL)
4. Version pinning - Lock specific versions of tools and dependencies
5. Instant activation - Environment loads automatically when entering a project directory

Security Model

Our infrastructure uses SOPS (Secrets OPerationS) for secure secret management:

• Secrets are encrypted at rest in Git repositories
• Each developer has their own age key for decryption
• Fine-grained access control per project
• No secrets in plaintext ever committed to version control

Getting Help

If you encounter issues:

1. Check the Getting Started guide
2. Review existing repositories for examples
3. Contact the Datadrivet team:
   • Alexander Reinthal
   • Jimmy Flatting