hot #bazelcon @bazelbuild takes
speakers: anything is possible technically, cross compile to ENIAC or atari
build teams: CI burning, fixed budget, devs want instant builds w/o changing tools
CTOs: we're pumping PRs like never before but is it making $$$
infra ain't boring!
Super cool work Tyler French + all the @buildbuddy + @bazelbuild people who manifested CDC buildbuddy.io/blog/content-d…
Dan Stowell retweeted
Beyond excited to welcome @SmileyKeith to the BuildBuddy team! Keith is the maintainer of Bazel's iOS support, a contributor to LLVM and Swift, creator of the Mobile Native Foundation, and an all around awesome human.
buildbuddy.io/blog/welcoming…
What I want:
`build thing`: builds the thing, fanning out on as many machines as it takes, caching like storage is free (it is)
`test thing`: tests the dang thing
`run thing`: runs it somewhere until it exits
That's it, that's the tool^H^H^H^H tweet
Dan Stowell retweeted
Large engineering teams use Bazel to tame their ever-growing monorepos. Today, I'm excited to share rules_codex, a hermetic cross-platform Bazel toolchain and ruleset for OpenAI's Codex coding agent designed to make working in large enterprise codebases fun again.
Dan Stowell retweeted
I've been building at the intersection of Bazel + coding agents for a few months and have some fun things to share. The first one is a hermetic, cross-platform Claude Code toolchain let's you easily use Claude in Bazel builds, tests, and runs. Link & more below!
@buildbuddy is hiring ops-minded engineers.
Closest known title is SRE.
Really the job is "offer world-best build perf & uptime while driving customer costs down using colocated hardware and the cloud."
Write me / @siggi / @tylerbw to learn more.
welcome to @buildbuddy, tyler!
somehow all the tylers i know are amazing?
definitely name causation
github.com/tyler-french
Dan Stowell retweeted
Whenever I’m overwhelmed at work, I go back to what @dnstow once told me: “Relax, we build websites.”
Container images are so dang cacheable
(The spike is image caching going to 100% in the @buildbuddy colo)
If you or a loved one have migrated build systems, well or poorly, ages ago or now, I’d love to talk!
(Yes, I’m trying to make Bazel migrations dramatically cheaper)
Some news: I'm joining @buildbuddy to Make Builds Just Work®️‼️
Builds should be straightforward, fast, and cheap.
Boring, even.
@bazelbuild works!
Especially for large teams.
But it can be daunting.
Looking forward to digging in with this talented crew to make Bazel more approachable, step by step.
In the heart of Chicago winter, @paulogdm sends the Brazilian warmth, the good stuff
Dan Stowell retweeted
Vercel manages millions of builds, and I wrote a blog post diving into the details
Hive is our ephemeral compute platform powering all of our builds—boosting performance by 30% and cutting provisioning time from 90s to 5s
vercel.com/blog/a-deep-dive-…
Dan Stowell retweeted
So excited that we’ve started talking about this publicly. 🥳 Super proud of what we’ve accomplished here. AMA.
A year with Hive: The compute platform behind Vercel builds.
• +30% faster build speeds
• Secure, isolated code environments
• Scales automatically from zero to millions
Here's how it works.
vercel.com/blog/a-deep-dive-…