Aspect Insights

Dec 13 2024 14 ep. 33 mins 4
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Keep up with the latest developments in monorepo developer tooling based on the Bazel build tool. Hosted by Aspect Build co-founder Alex Eagle.

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Overcoming Deployment Fears: Embracing Continuous Delivery for Reliable Software Releases

Dec 13 2024 32 mins  
Welcome back to Aspect Insights, the podcast that dives deep into the world of software development. In today’s episode, “Overcoming Fear of Deployment,” Alex Eagle, co-founder of Aspect Build, chats with Ankit Jain, founder of Aviator and former Googler. They tackle a major pain point in tech: building confidence in software deployments. Ankit shares actionable advice on emb

Navigating Compatibility Challenges: Practical Steps to Implement Bzlmod in Bazel Projects

Nov 20 2024 45 mins  
Welcome to Aspect Insights, the podcast where we delve into the intricacies of the Bazel ecosystem and explore practical solutions for developers navigating its evolving landscape. In our latest episode titled "Practical Steps to Adopt Bzlmod," host Alex Eagle is joined by Mike Bland, a platform architect at Inflow and former Googler. Together, they unpack the challenges and opport

Navigating Bazel's JavaScript Frontier: Insights from Robinhood's David Agassi

Nov 12 2024 34 mins  
In Episode 12 of Aspect Insights, host Alex Eagle welcomes David Agassi from Robinhood to discuss their experiences and challenges with migrating to Rules.js for Bazel. The conversation covers Robinhood's transition from Yarn to PNPM, dealing with monorepo scaling issues, implementing build file generation, testing strategies, and the developer experience. Agassi shares details abo

Bazel and Rust: Optimizing Builds and Cross-Compilation with Daniel Wagner-Hall

Oct 09 2024 32 mins  
In this episode, we sit down with Daniel Wagner-Hall, a maintainer of Rules Rust and a Bazel expert, to explore how Bazel and Rust work together to streamline builds and cross-compilation. Daniel shares insights from his extensive experience, including his role in open-sourcing Bazel at Google and his consulting work helping teams optimize their Bazel-Rust integrations. We dive int

Mastering Bazel Build File Automation with Aspect CLI and Gazelle

Oct 04 2024 27 mins  
This episode is best accompanied by this video walkthrough: Mastering Bazel Build File Automation with Aspect CLI and Gazelle Build file generation in Bazel can often feel like a step backward for developers used to more automated build systems. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to streamline your workflow using Aspect CLI and Gazelle to automate Bazel build file creation. We'l

Ed Schouten on Buildbarn’s Evolution and Impact

Sep 24 2024 35 mins  
In this episode of Aspect Insights, host Alex Eagle is joined by Ed Schouten, author of Buildbarn, to explore the past five years of Buildbarn’s journey in the Bazel ecosystem. Ed shares how the project started, its evolution, and key milestones like migrating from Redis/S3 to disk-based storage, implementing virtual file systems, and adding multi-tenancy. Whether you’re a Baze

The Future of TypeScript in Bazel: An In-Depth Conversation on SWC

Sep 10 2024 31 mins  
In this episode of Aspect Insights, Alex Eagle sits down with Jason Bedard to explore the intersection of TypeScript and SWC within the Bazel ecosystem. Jason, the primary maintainer of rules JS, shares his insights on managing large-scale migrations and the evolving role of TypeScript in modern development workflows. Whether you're a developer looking to optimize your TypeScript

Navigating Bzlmod: Migrating to Bazel 8 and Beyond

Aug 20 2024 34 mins  
In this episode of Aspect Insights, Alex Eagle sits down with Fabian Meumertzheim to dive deep into the world of Bazel, focusing on the pivotal introduction of Bazelmod and what it means for developers as we approach Bazel 8. We explore the key features of Bazelmod, the best practices for migrating to this new system, and how to navigate the potential challenges. Whether you're lo

Bazel and JetBrains IDEs

Jul 09 2024 32 mins  
Borja worked on the “Build Team” at Apple, mostly focused on the IntelliJ plugin. We’ll talk about how Bazel works with (and breaks!) IDEs and Editors in general, and how his team supported Bazel users on IntelliJ in particular.

Bazel's Tracing and Logging Facilities

Jun 14 2024 33 mins  
Tiago Quelhas is a software engineer on the Bazel team. He’s the author of the “compact” execution log feature in Bazel 7.1. He’ll discuss how execution logs can be used to diagnose Bazel behaviors such as determinism and cache hits, and what other problems you can solve by enabling tracing and logging flags.