Bazel's famous remote caching and remote execution capabilities can be a game changer, but if you're not familiar with how they work, they can be a bit of a mystery.
Well, don't worry. I'm here with to go over the fundamentals of remote caching and remote execution, with a nuts and bolts (or rather actions and spawns 😄) overview of Bazel's remote capabilities.
In our last post, we summarized the changes that were in the Bazel 5.0 release. There were a lot of changes though, so it can be hard to determine which ones are impactful to you and why.
Don't worry, we've got your back. In this post we highlight the changes that help BuildBuddy users build even faster!
Bazel 5.0 includes nearly 3,000 changes since 4.2.2. It's the first major release since 4.0 was release in January of last year, and it's Bazel's second LTS release. Since there were so many changes, many of them quite impactful, I felt I needed to review them all and provide a nice summary for y'all. So that's what I did 😄.