BazelCon 2019

Cross-posted from the original BazelCon 2019 recap .

Last month the Google Bazel team hosted its largest ever Bazel user conference: BazelCon 2019, an annual gathering of the community surrounding the Bazel build system. This is the main Bazel event of the year which serves as an opportunity for Bazel contributors, maintainers, and users to meet and learn from each other, present Bazel migration stories, educate new users, and collaborate together on the future of Bazel.

BazelCon 2019 by the Numbers

• 400+ attendees (2x increase over BazelCon 2018)
• 125 organizations represented including Microsoft, Spotify, Uber, Apple, Cruise, EA, Lyft, Tesla, SpaceX, SAP, Bloomberg, Wix, Etsy, BMW and others
• 26 full-length talks and 15 lightning talks by members of the external community and Googlers
• 16 hours of Q&A during Office Hours with Bazel team members
• 45 Bazel Bootcamp attendees
• 5 Birds of a Feather sessions on iOS, Python, Java, C++ and Front-end Bazel rules
• 182 users in the #bazelcon2019 Slack channel

BazelCon 2019 Full Length Talks

The full playlist also includes lighting talks.

• Keynote: The Role of Catastrophic Failure in Software Design – Jeff Atwood (Stack Overflow/Discourse)
• Bazel State of the Union – John Field and Dmirty Lomov (Google)
• Building Self Driving Cars with Bazel – Axel Uhlig and Patrick Ziegler (BMW Group)
• Moving to a Bazel-based CI system: 6 Learnings – Or Shachar (Wix)
• Bazel Federation – Florian Weikert (Google)
• Lessons from our First 100,000 Bazel Builds – Kevin Gessner (Etsy)
• Migrating Lyft-iOS to Bazel – Keith Smiley and Dave Lee (Lyft)
• Test Selection – Benjamin Peterson (Dropbox)
• Porting iOS Apps to Bazel – Oscar Bonilla (LinkedIn)
• Boosting Dev Box Performance with Remote Execution for Non-Hermetic Build Engines – Erik Mavrinac (Microsoft)
• Building on Key - Keeping your Actions and Remote Executions in Tune – George Gensure (UberATG)
• Bazel remote execution API vs Goma – Mostyn Bramley-Moore (Vewd Software)
• Integrating with ease: leveraging BuildStream interaction with Bazel build for consistent results – Daniel Silverstone (Codethink)
• Building Self-Driving Cars with Bazel – Michael Broll and Nico Valigi (Cruise)
• Make local development (with Bazel) great again! – Ittai Zeidman (Wix)
• Gradle to Bazel – Chip Dickson and Charles Walker (SUM Global Technology)
• Bazel Bootcamp – Kyle Cordes (Oasis Digital)
• Bazel migration patterns: how to prove business value with a small investment – Alex Eagle and Greg Magolan (Google)
• Dynamic scheduling: Fastest clean and incremental builds – Julio Merino (Google)
• Building a great CI with Bazel – Philipp Wollermann (Google)

By Misha Narinsky, Bazel Team