E061 - Flair.build

How long does it take to build your application? When you build your application are you rebuilding the entire universe, or are you using incremental build caching? For some applications, build times are perfectly acceptable, and there are no major complexities around building the application. For others, the build time is unacceptable, is impacting the developer experience, and perhaps most importantly, it is causing your organization money. So, what is your organization to do?

There are a few organizations that manage development scale at the largest level, and one of those organizations is Google. All source code at Google is part of the google3 monolithic repository, and further, building applications can be complex. Google set out to solve this problem and built Blaze, and then released Bazel as an open-source project in 2015. In this show, we learned from Zack Gray, from Flare.build, about how Bazel is an automated tool for building and testing. Bazel is language and framework agnostic, meaning, it can be used to build and test not just TypeScript and JavaScript, but any language. Further, Bazel leverages parallelization, enabling the tool to build multiple aspects/modules of your application simultaneously. This also leads to building and testing across many machines. Finally, Bazel is smart enough to only build the artifacts that need to be re-built. This leads to incredible performance and reliability.

If Blaze sounds like a potential solution for you, then this is an episode of the Angular Show that you will want to listen to. Finally, if you need help with building, running, configuring, and extending Blaze, then be sure to reach out to Zach and the team at Flare.build.

Connect with us:

Zach Gray - @zachgray_io
Brian F Love - @brian_love
Jennifer Wadella - @likeOMGitsFEDAY
Aaron Frost - @aaronfrost

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