Just like that, BazelCon 2024 came and went. So... it’s obviously time to summarize the two events of last week: BazelCon 2024 and the adjacent Build Meetup. There is A LOT to cover, but everything is here in just one article!
It’s basically what BuildBarn offers, except scalable, independently maintained, and written in Rust. It’s Apache-licensed, though a member of the Linux Foundation.
No mention of the sole Gold Sponsor in this post so I will mention it here, which some of us had never heard of prior to the event.
NativeLink: https://nativelink.com
It’s basically what BuildBarn offers, except scalable, independently maintained, and written in Rust. It’s Apache-licensed, though a member of the Linux Foundation.
> Prebuilding git-archives periodically and using those to build the initial state of a Git clone can significantly improve performance.
There is a better solution for this called git-bundles. Which can be created incrementally as well.
https://github.com/git-ecosystem/git-bundle-server is a POC from github for distributing these bundles.