Hacker News with Generative AI: Bazel

The next generation of Bazel builds (blogsystem5.substack.com)
Today marks the 10th anniversary of Bazel’s public announcement so this is the perfect moment to reflect on what the next generation of build systems in the Bazel ecosystem may look like.

Software, Build Systems, Bazel

5 points by ingve 10 days ago | 0 comments

Goodbye Dockerfile, Hello Bazel: Doubling Our CI Speed (plaid.com)
In the first half of 2024, Plaid’s Developer Efficiency team set out to speed up our largest CI pipeline without disrupting developer workflows—and ended up cutting CI times by 50%, shrinking container images by 90%, and making local iteration up to 5x faster.

Software Development, CI/CD, Performance Optimization, Containerization, Bazel

20 points by nchepanov 24 days ago | 2 comments

Using Bazel to build a new Rust project (fahhem.com)
Looking around, it seems that everyone uses Cargo for new Rust projects, then teams will switch over to Bazel if they need to. For me, I have an existing Bazel project that I'm adding Rust to, so I don't want to start with Cargo, so in this post I'll document how to use Bazel to build a new Rust project. Since this is an existing project, and I haven't upgraded to using bzlmod yet, I'll be using the WORKSPACE file.