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Bazel - Build System for Large-Scale Development

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Learn about Bazel, Google's powerful build system, in this comprehensive conference talk from ACCU 2025. Discover how Google manages the world's largest mono-repository and why they chose a mono-repo architecture for massive efficiency gains. Explore Bazel's key advantages including its use of a "limited Python" programming language instead of complex text manipulation tools like autotools or cmake, enabling more comprehensible and maintainable build configurations. Master Bazel's reproducible build capabilities and advanced caching mechanisms that deliver significant compilation time speedups across multiple programming languages, not just C++. Understand how Bazel combines incredible flexibility with correctness while maintaining Python-like simplicity. Gain practical insights from Marcus Boerger, a former Google Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience, who shares real-world expertise in implementing Bazel for large-scale software development projects. Get the foundational knowledge needed to start leveraging Bazel's capabilities in your own development workflow.

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Bazel - Marcus Boerger - ACCU 2025

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