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Bazel eXchange Panel: Day 2

Featuring Gregg Reynolds, Guillaume Maudoux, Matt Mackay, Aleksander Gondek, Artur Stachecki and Andreas Herrmann

Join us as we wrap up Bazel eXchange with this panel hosted by Andreas Herrmann from TWEAG. Andreas will be joined by a selection of the days speakers for a virtual panel exploring a variety of topics that are front of mind for teams working within the Bazel build community.

OBazl: A Bazel Ruleset for OCaml

Featuring Gregg Reynolds

The build discipline of the standard OCaml toolchain is complex and opaque. In this talk Gregg will address some of the challenges of developing the OBazl ruleset, and outline most of the major features of the OBazl toolsuite along the way.

Fast, Green — Choose Two: A Buildkite Case Study

Featuring Matt Mackay

Running Bazel on a CI worker is easy, but making it perform well requires care. We'll discuss techniques like Auto-Scaling the agent pool elastically with demand, avoiding slow builds on cold agents, and other performance tricks.

Bazel meets Clojure: How to move fast and not break things

Featuring Allen Rohner

Focus time is a precious commodity, especially for developers. What if you could reduce build and test cycles from hours to minutes, and get time back in your diary. Here’s how we did just that using Bazel and Clojure.

Remote Builds, Despite rules_nixpkgs

Featuring Guillaume Maudoux

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gazelle_nix: Generating Bazel Definitions for your Nix Code

Featuring Artur Stachecki and Aleksander Gondek

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Bazel eXchange Panel: Day 1

Featuring Alexei Drake, Jason Dobies, Alex Eagle and Andreas Herrmann

Join us at the end of Day 1 of Bazel eXchange for this panel hosted by Andreas Herrmann from TWEAG.

Andreas will be joined by a selection of the days speakers for a virtual panel exploring a variety of topics that are front of mind for teams working within the Bazel build community.

A Simpler JavaScript Rule Set for Bazel

Featuring Alex Eagle

During this session, Alex will be talking about aspectrulesjs, a new Bazel rule set that replaces most of rules_nodejs with a radically simpler and more node-idiomatic way to fetch minimal npm packages and lay them out for runtime resolution.

Autoscaling Bazel Remote Builds and EC2 Mac with Buildkite, Flare and Nodeless Kubernetes

Featuring Madhuri Yechuri

In this session, Zach Gray will be joined by Mahdri Yechuri for an exploration of how they've used kubernetes to tame the complexity of managing distributed macOS build & test pipelines, with Bazel remote build infrastructure to scale performance and reduce costs.

State of Developer Satisfaction with Bazel

Featuring Jason Dobies

In this talk, Google's Jason Dobies breaks down the results of the 2021 Developer Satisfaction Survey and provides some insight into the future of Bazel: What languages are most popular with our developers? What new features are they most interested in? How can we improve the user experience?...