Aspect Insights
Episodes
Live from BazelCon 2025: Google leads for Bazel open source Yun Peng and Xudong Yang
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk live at BazelCon 2025 in Atlanta with the Google leads for Bazel open source, Google Staff Software Engineer Yun Peng and Sof...
How Snowflake Transformed its C++ and Java Build Systems
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore how Snowflake transformed its C++ and Java build systems using Bazel to achieve faster, more reliable builds. Julio shares...
State of Swift and iOS in Bazel
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
iOS development has always been easy with Apple's tools like Xcode - at a certain scale. Then it breaks down. Bazel has been a very popular alternativ...
Inside JetBrains' New Bazel Plugin with Justin Kaeser
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Inside JetBrains' New Bazel Plugin with Justin Kaeser In this episode, Alex Eagle, co-founder and CEO of Aspect Build, talks with Justin Kaeser, team ...
Better Bazel Flag Defaults - Feat: Markus Hofbauer from Zipline
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bazel now has 776 command-line flags. Most users know maybe 5. In this episode, Markus Hofbauer from Zipline joins Alex to unpack the chaos of Bazel ...
Bazel for Everyone? Hard Questions with Confluent Engineers
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is Bazel a tool for the masses or a purpose-built solution best kept in the hands of power users? Farid Zakaria and Vince Rose, two Bazel-savvy engine...
Rethinking Developer Tooling in Monorepos with bazel_env - feat. Fabian Meumertzheim
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alex Eagle is joined by returning guest Fabian Meumertzheim from BuildBuddy to talk about a common pain for engineering teams: managi...
Overcoming Deployment Fears: Embracing Continuous Delivery for Reliable Software Releases
14 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Aspect Insights, the podcast that dives deep into the world of software development. In today's episode, "Overcoming Fear of Deploymen...
Navigating Compatibility Challenges: Practical Steps to Implement Bzlmod in Bazel Projects
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Aspect Insights, the podcast where we delve into the intricacies of the Bazel ecosystem and explore practical solutions for developers navi...
Navigating Bazel's JavaScript Frontier: Insights from Robinhood's David Agassi
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 12 of Aspect Insights, host Alex Eagle welcomes David Agassi from Robinhood to discuss their experiences and challenges with migrating to R...
Bazel and Rust: Optimizing Builds and Cross-Compilation with Daniel Wagner-Hall
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Daniel Wagner-Hall, a maintainer of Rules Rust and a Bazel expert, to explore how Bazel and Rust work together to st...
Mastering Bazel Build File Automation with Aspect CLI and Gazelle
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is best accompanied by this video walkthrough: Mastering Bazel Build File Automation with Aspect CLI and Gazelle Build file generatio...
Ed Schouten on Buildbarn's Evolution and Impact
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Aspect Insights, host Alex Eagle is joined by Ed Schouten, author of Buildbarn, to explore the past five years of Buildbarn's journ...
The Future of TypeScript in Bazel: An In-Depth Conversation on SWC
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Aspect Insights, Alex Eagle sits down with Jason Bedard to explore the intersection of TypeScript and SWC within the Bazel ecosyst...
Navigating Bzlmod: Migrating to Bazel 8 and Beyond
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Aspect Insights, Alex Eagle sits down with Fabian Meumertzheim to dive deep into the world of Bazel, focusing on the pivotal intro...
Bazel and JetBrains IDEs
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Borja worked on the "Build Team" at Apple, mostly focused on the IntelliJ plugin. We'll talk about how Bazel works with (and breaks!) IDEs and Editors...
Bazel's Tracing and Logging Facilities
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tiago Quelhas is a software engineer on the Bazel team. He's the author of the "compact" execution log feature in Bazel 7.1. He'll discuss how executi...
What's new in Bazel 7.2
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brentley Jones joins us to talk about what's new in the latest Long-Term Support release of Bazel. Brentley is well-known for the best blog posts summ...
BazelCon is hosted by the Linux Foundation
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last year's BazelCon was a success - but at a cost. The Bazel engineering team had to take on a lot of the burden. As the team announced in https://b...
rules_js 2.0
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for an in-depth live stream featuring Greg Magolan, Co-founder and CTO of Aspect Build. We'll explore the latest updates in the Bazel JavaScri...
Never Compile protoc Again
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The protobuf repo has been a headache for Bazel users for a long time. Starting in Bazel 7, there's a new flag to use a toolchain for looking up proto...