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One Billion Objects and No Database: Inside Cache.nixos.org

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AWS has renewed its sponsorship of cache.nixos.org, the public binary cache that serves prebuilt packages for NixOS and the Nix package manager, covering hosting costs for another year after first stepping in during 2023.

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