2 April 2026
Accessing external resources reliably with Bazel
Learn how to minimize risks when having third-party dependencies.
bazel
5 February 2026
Integrating Coverity static analysis with Bazel
A Bazel story of how we integrated a proprietary static analysis tool for fast, incremental analysis with Bazel.
18 December 2025
Announcing rules_img: a faster path to container images in Bazel
rules_img is a Bazel ruleset for building and publishing OCI images that feel native to Bazel by treating images as metadata first and moving bytes only at the edges.
4 December 2025
The anatomy of a dependency graph
The hidden complexity of dependency graphs
20 November 2025
Migrating to Bazel symbolic macros
Learn more about modernizing Bazel macros in your codebase
18 September 2025
Managing dependency graph in a large codebase
Common issues and best practices managing large dependency graphs
4 September 2025
Introduction to the dependency graph
What a build systems engineer might want to know
3 July 2025
Bazel workshop made public
The materials from a Bazel workshop we developed for a client are now publicly available
6 March 2025
Bazel and Testwell CTC++, revisited
How we shoehorned a proprietary code coverage tool into Bazel's expectations of hermetic and reproducible build actions.
17 October 2024
Introducing rules_gcs
Efficient Google Cloud Storage Integration for Bazel
29 August 2024
Deploying Buildbarn on Kubernetes with mTLS on the side
No packet should pass unencrypted or unauthenticated.
29 February 2024
Bazel remote execution with rules_nixpkgs
Creating infrastructure for supporting Bazel remote execution with rules_nixpkgs
7 December 2023
BazelCon Community Day - Munich
A summary of BazelCon Community Day 2023 in Munich
23 November 2023
Separating debug symbols from executables
Make your C/C++ builds faster and smaller with debug fission.
9 November 2023
Integrating Testwell CTC++ with Bazel
A Bazel war story of how we integrated a proprietary code coverage tool that does not play according to Bazel's rules.
27 July 2023
Building a Rust workspace with Bazel
Setting up a Bazel build for the ripgrep codebase
4 May 2023
Announcing Skyscope
A new tool for visualising and exploring Bazel build graphs.
15 December 2022
Bazel and Nix: A Migration Experience
Getting an old Make based project building again after 10 years with the help of Bazel and Nix.
3 November 2022
Recompilation avoidance in rules_haskell
Bazel avoids superfluous recompilation for free, but we can make it even better.
20 October 2022
Converting a polyglot project build to Bazel: part 1
Painlessly switch your Haskell build from Cabal to Bazel
6 October 2022
Bazel rules to test Bazel rules
Looking for a way to test Bazel-rules
15 September 2022
How to keep a Bazel project hermetic?
A collection of helpful tips for Bazel users.
25 August 2022
Introducing the Scalable Build Systems Team
Introducing the Scalable Build Systems Team
23 June 2022
Incremental builds for Haskell with Bazel
Announcing the new haskell_module rule in rules_haskell
8 September 2021
Building a Go project using Bazel
Building a Go project using Bazel, generating build files with Gazelle
28 July 2021
Convert Cabal-based projects to Bazel automatically
Announcing the gazelle_cabal tool for automatic Bazel rules generation for Cabal projects
1 July 2021
Building OCaml Projects with Bazel
Building OCaml projects with the new Bazel ruleset, OBazl
25 March 2021
How to build hybrid Haskell and Java programs
Discussion on using Bazel with inline-java
30 September 2020
Fully statically linked Haskell binaries with Bazel
Bazel gains support for creating fully statically linked Haskell binaries with rules_haskell and rules_nixpkgs.
16 September 2020
Implicit Dependencies in Build Systems
6 May 2020
A taste of Bazel: build a library, a service and hspec tests
How to build a complete Haskell project with Bazel.
9 April 2020
Setting up a shared build cache using Bazel
How to set up a remote Bazel cache, and why it is a good idea.
9 October 2019
Bazel, Cabal, Stack: Why choose when you can have them all?
Bazel gets native support for third-party Haskell libraries and building Cabal packages since the 0.10 release of rules_haskell.
25 September 2019
Bazel's Persistent Worker Mode for GHC: An Industrial Internship
I got the opportunity to work on Bazel's Persistent Worker Mode for GHC during my internship at Tweag. My goal was to improve the mode of communication between Bazel and the Haskell GHC compiler.
15 March 2018
Nix + Bazel = fully reproducible, incremental builds
28 February 2018