Heartening to see "let's apply this algorithm and drop IO 40%" still works in the year 2026.
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Dan Stowell retweeted
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…
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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
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Dan Stowell retweeted
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.
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Dan Stowell retweeted
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.
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Dan Stowell retweeted
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!
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Replying to @buildbuddy
@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.
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- Small company (~15 people) - Revenue growing faster than headcount - One highly-recommended meeting per week - Fully remote - Get together in-person 2x/year
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Dan Stowell retweeted
Whenever I’m overwhelmed at work, I go back to what @dnstow once told me: “Relax, we build websites.”
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Container images are so dang cacheable (The spike is image caching going to 100% in the @buildbuddy colo)
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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)
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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.
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!
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Xooglers will literally start new companies to rebuild Google tools instead of going to therapy
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In the heart of Chicago winter, @paulogdm sends the Brazilian warmth, the good stuff
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Dan Stowell retweeted
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-dive-…
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So excited that we’ve started talking about this publicly. 🥳 Super proud of what we’ve accomplished here. AMA.
A year with Hive: The compute platform behind Vercel builds. • +30% faster build speeds • Secure, isolated code environments • Scales automatically from zero to millions Here's how it works. vercel.com/blog/a-deep-dive-…
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"Read my mind. But somehow do it better." ^ The default management inertia (that we all must fight)
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I did a thing today at work...
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