Bazel in CI (Part 2): Worker Setup
How to setup your CI to run Bazel
Nov 1, 202212 min read
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When to use Bazel? (by Earthly Blog)
I made a quick appearance recently in an article on Earthly Blog: https://earthly.dev/blog/bazel-build/. The author of the article, Adam Gordon Bell, was incredibly open-minded about Bazel despite it being a competition to Earthly. Adam spent a signi...
Sep 18, 20221 min readBazel in CI (Part 1): Commit Under Test
Today I want to discuss a topic of different strategies in picking which commit to test against in CI, aka. choosing the commit under test or revision under test Why should I care about this? By picking the right commit in CI, you could solve sever...
Sep 12, 202215 min read
Bazel Caching Explained (pt. 4): Persistent Action Cache
Author's Note I was on a short vacation last week so this blog post should arrive a bit later than usual. I expect the next blog post and this one to be released somewhat close to each others, but no promises. I wanted to do some drawing for this blo...
Aug 22, 20229 min read
Bazel in CI (Part 0): The Developer Experience Funnel
This week we are taking a small break from discussions about Explaining Bazel Cache. No worry, that series is still on-going. But I want to experiment with starting a second blog series in parallel. The hypothesis I want to validate is: By introducin...
Aug 8, 202212 min read
Bazel Caching Explained (pt. 3): Repository Cache
Author's Note I started to write about Bazel's local-disk cache thinking that this is gona be a relatively simple, straightforward topic without much to discuss. Oh boy am I wrong. The good part is that I don't often have to touch or to think about ...
Aug 1, 20228 min read
Generating Bazel BUILD files: It should be easy
This week, I am taking a small break from writing about Bazel Caching. I expect the next part in this series to be continued next week. However, I did make a public appearence in Bazel's Official Youtube Channel this week talking about Extending Baze...
Jul 24, 20221 min readBazel Caching Explained (pt. 2): Bazel In-Memory Cache
Bazel's architecture, Bazel's In-Memory Cache and How to measure it's impact.
Jul 17, 202216 min read
Bazel Caching Explained (pt. 1): How Bazel Works
A recap of how Bazel builds and tests a project.
Jul 10, 20228 min read