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Goodbye Dockerfile, Hello Bazel: Doubling Our CI Speed

20 points| nchepanov | 11 months ago |plaid.com

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carb|11 months ago

did migrating to bazel require specialized expertise or were teams able to pick it up quickly?

nchepanov|11 months ago

That's a great question, we were very concerned about the extra complexity Bazel was going to add to the daily workflows. We were able to hide most of it from most engineers. For the platform team however, the learning curve was brutal. In fact hired external expertise to consult us and answer our questions