Dan Stowell

Beyond excited to welcome @SmileyKeith to the BuildBuddy team! Keith is the maintainer of Bazel's iOS support, a contributor to LLVM and Swift, creator of the Mobile Native Foundation, and an all around awesome human. buildbuddy.io/blog/welcoming…

What I want: `build thing`: builds the thing, fanning out on as many machines as it takes, caching like storage is free (it is) `test thing`: tests the dang thing `run thing`: runs it somewhere until it exits That's it, that's the tool^H^H^H^H tweet

Large engineering teams use Bazel to tame their ever-growing monorepos. Today, I'm excited to share rules_codex, a hermetic cross-platform Bazel toolchain and ruleset for OpenAI's Codex coding agent designed to make working in large enterprise codebases fun again.

By using BUILD files to store and version your prompts in source control - we move from ad hoc prompting to actually engineering prompts and context in a meaningful way.

I've been building at the intersection of Bazel + coding agents for a few months and have some fun things to share. The first one is a hermetic, cross-platform Claude Code toolchain let's you easily use Claude in Bazel builds, tests, and runs. Link & more below!

The "official" job posting: buildbuddy.io/jobs/senior-si…

- Small company (~15 people) - Revenue growing faster than headcount - One highly-recommended meeting per week - Fully remote - Get together in-person 2x/year

@buildbuddy is hiring ops-minded engineers. Closest known title is SRE. Really the job is "offer world-best build perf & uptime while driving customer costs down using colocated hardware and the cloud." Write me / @siggi / @tylerbw to learn more.

welcome to @buildbuddy, tyler! somehow all the tylers i know are amazing? definitely name causation github.com/tyler-french

Whenever I’m overwhelmed at work, I go back to what @dnstow once told me: “Relax, we build websites.”

Container images are so dang cacheable (The spike is image caching going to 100% in the @buildbuddy colo)

If you or a loved one have migrated build systems, well or poorly, ages ago or now, I’d love to talk! (Yes, I’m trying to make Bazel migrations dramatically cheaper)

Some news: I'm joining @buildbuddy to Make Builds Just Work®️‼️ Builds should be straightforward, fast, and cheap. Boring, even. @bazelbuild works! Especially for large teams. But it can be daunting. Looking forward to digging in with this talented crew to make Bazel more approachable, step by step.

@siggi Thank you! Happy to be hacking with what Jim calls "the cool computer club"!

buildbuddy.io/blog/welcoming… cc @dnstow

Excited to share that Dan Stowell has joined the BuildBuddy team! Dan brings lots of experience building and scaling iconic companies — as Director of Engineering at Vercel, and Head of Engineering at Replit, and Principal Engineer at Spotify. Welcome to the team, Dan!

Xooglers will literally start new companies to rebuild Google tools instead of going to therapy

In the heart of Chicago winter, @paulogdm sends the Brazilian warmth, the good stuff

Vercel manages millions of builds, and I wrote a blog post diving into the details Hive is our ephemeral compute platform powering all of our builds—boosting performance by 30% and cutting provisioning time from 90s to 5s vercel.com/blog/a-deep-di…

So excited that we’ve started talking about this publicly. 🥳 Super proud of what we’ve accomplished here. AMA.

@shriprasanna007 @DhravyaShah never >>> "super rare" our own internal metrics agree with super rare BUT if you ever hit this again, please dm me and we'll look at it right away.

@DhravyaShah yaa, its happened for me as well. (super rare)

anyone else having this issue? My vercel builds randomly run for about 45 minutes+ straight and time out on this step but upon redeploying a couple times, it starts working again xD

@DhravyaShah that's the worst. vercel builds team will look into it right away - can you dm me a link to a timed out deployment?