Why “Bazel” is being discussed
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Yes. Bazel is half of the equation. The other half which other enterprises rely on is the server side of Bazel's Remote Build protocol. There, the scheduler can be implemented w…
by sluongng · Sep 22, 2026
The Bazel ecosystem builds container images not by using Dockerfile, which contains non-reproducible primitives such as RUN and others. We do it by actually constructing the fil…
by sluongng · Sep 22, 2026
What i have seen on my end is that it’s pretty easy to setup a cloud coding agent with a warm Bazel cache. “Warm” here can means multiple layers: same disk to CoW/hardlink,…
by sluongng · Sep 22, 2026
We solve it 2 ways in the Bazel ecosystem: for the intermediate artifacts, we only fetch the digest (hash + size) of the blobs to calculate the merkle tree forward. The blob its…
by sluongng · Sep 22, 2026
I think to solve this problem properly, we have to stop treating "build" and "test" as separate buckets of work, to be designed and scaled separately. It's all CI. As soon as yo…
by shykes · Sep 22, 2026
Depends on which targets and how granular the caching is. - if you touch package.json that might invalidate everything - touch core and you'll invalidate everything - touch one…
by seniorsassycat · Sep 21, 2026
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Bazel is a village in Belgium, in the municipality of Kruibeke in the province of East Flanders. The village is home to the Wissekerke Castle. The municipality of Bazel merged into Kruibeke in 1977. Read more on Wikipedia