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BuildBuddy Blog
Company blog · buildbuddy.io/blog · on HN as siggisystemsprogramming
BuildBuddy Blog is the company blog at buildbuddy.io, writing about systems and programming. Since 2020, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 112 times, most often “BuildBuddy – Bazel at Enterprise Scale”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The BuildBuddy blog covers Bazel, remote build execution and build tooling. Its linked material is mostly cited in comments about the BuildBuddy company, its hiring posts and its Bazel product, not the blog writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
BuildBuddy provides enterprise features for Bazel — the open source build system that allows you to build and test software 10x faster.
Most-linked posts?
- BuildBuddy – Bazel at Enterprise Scale6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-11-28
- /jobs/software-engineer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-04
What Hacker News says?
BuildBuddy (YC W20) | Engineering | Bay Area, Remote | Full-Time BuildBuddy was founded to give anyone a "google-style" development environment in minutes. Today we're solving a small piece of this problem with an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel - but our ambitions are much larger. Our mission is to take the world-class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and…
Comment linking /jobs/software-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”Submitted What's New in Bazel 5.0 as a story · 10 points
HN discussionBuildBuddy (YC W20) | Engineering | Remote, Bay Area | Full-Time BuildBuddy was founded to give anyone a "Google-style" development environment in minutes. Today we're solving a small piece of this problem with an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel - but our ambitions are much larger. Our mission is to take the world-class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and…
Comment linking /jobs/solutions-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)”Submitted Why is my Bazel build so slow? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionBuildBuddy (YC W20) | Engineering | Bay Area, Remote | Full-Time BuildBuddy was founded to give anyone a "google-style" development environment in minutes. Today we're solving a small piece of this problem with an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel - but our ambitions are much larger. Our mission is to take the world-class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and…
Comment linking /jobs/software-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)”Submitted How to Migrate an iOS App to Bazel as a story · 6 points
HN discussionBuildBuddy (YC W20) | Engineering | Remote, Bay Area | Full-Time BuildBuddy was founded to give anyone a "Google-style" development environment in minutes. Today we're solving a small piece of this problem with an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel - but our ambitions are much larger. Our mission is to take the world-class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and…
Comment linking /jobs/solutions-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)”Submitted Buck2 Unboxing as a story · 5 points
HN discussionBuildBuddy (YC W20) | Engineering | Remote, Bay Area | Full-Time BuildBuddy was founded to give anyone a "Google-style" development environment in minutes. Today we're solving a small piece of this problem with an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel - but our ambitions are much larger. Our mission is to take the world-class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and…
Comment linking /jobs/solutions-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)”Submitted Bazel rules_xcodeproj version 1.0 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionBuildBuddy (YC W20) | Engineering | Remote, Bay Area | Full-Time BuildBuddy was founded to give anyone a "Google-style" development environment in minutes. Today we're solving a small piece of this problem with an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel - but our ambitions are much larger. Our mission is to take the world-class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and…
Comment linking /jobs/solutions-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)”Submitted Bazel rules_xcodeproj donated to the Mobile Native Foundation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionBuildBuddy (YC W20) | Engineering | Bay Area, Remote | Full-Time BuildBuddy was founded to give anyone a "google-style" development environment in minutes. Today we're solving a small piece of this problem with an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel - but our ambitions are much larger. Our mission is to take the world-class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and…
Comment linking /jobs/senior-site-reliability-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)”Submitted What's New in Bazel 6.0 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBuildBuddy (YC W20) | Engineering | Bay Area, Remote | Full-Time BuildBuddy was founded to give anyone a "Google-style" development environment in minutes. Today we're solving a small piece of this problem with an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel - but our ambitions are much larger. Our mission is to take the world-class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and…
Comment linking /jobs/solutions-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)”Submitted The missing piece for AI coding agents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBuildBuddy (YC W20) | Engineering | Remote, Bay Area | Full-Time BuildBuddy was founded to give anyone a "Google-style" development environment in minutes. Today we're solving a small piece of this problem with an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel - but our ambitions are much larger. Our mission is to take the world-class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and…
Comment linking /jobs/solutions-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)”Submitted Content-defined chunking added to Bazel as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBuildBuddy (YC W20) | Engineering | Remote, Bay Area | Full-Time BuildBuddy was founded to give anyone a "Google-style" development environment in minutes. Today we're solving a small piece of this problem with an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel - but our ambitions are much larger. Our mission is to take the world-class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and…
Comment linking /jobs/solutions-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)”Submitted BuildBuddy – Bazel at Enterprise Scale as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBuildBuddy (YC W20) | Engineering | Remote, Bay Area | Full-Time BuildBuddy was founded to give anyone a "Google-style" development environment in minutes. Today we're solving a small piece of this problem with an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel - but our ambitions are much larger. Our mission is to take the world-class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and…
Comment linking /jobs/solutions-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022)”BuildBuddy (YC W20) | Engineering | Remote, Bay Area | Full-Time BuildBuddy was founded to give anyone a "Google-style" development environment in minutes. Today we're solving a small piece of this problem with an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel - but our ambitions are much larger. Our mission is to take the world-class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and…
Comment linking /jobs/solutions-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)”I think there's a few advantages of bazel-like systems: 1. Reproducible/Hermetic: your builds cannot, say, access the network during a step or produce changing binaries for the same input. This makes sure that once you've downloaded your deps locally everything builds correctly from then on. 2. Caching: Because everything is reproducible in bazel-likes everything is cachable. Dependencies, builds, and even tests! If…
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on “Please – A cross-language build system”BuildBuddy (YC W20) | Engineering | Remote, Bay Area | Full-Time BuildBuddy was founded to give anyone a "Google-style" development environment in minutes. Today we're solving a small piece of this problem with an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel - but our ambitions are much larger. Our mission is to take the world-class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and…
Comment linking /jobs/solutions-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2022)”BuildBuddy (YC W20) | Engineering | Remote, Bay Area | Full-Time BuildBuddy was founded to give anyone a "Google-style" development environment in minutes. Today we're solving a small piece of this problem with an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel - but our ambitions are much larger. Our mission is to take the world-class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and…
Comment linking /jobs/solutions-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)”BuildBuddy (YC W20) | Engineering | Remote, Bay Area | Full-Time BuildBuddy was founded to give anyone a "Google-style" development environment in minutes. Today we're solving a small piece of this problem with an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel - but our ambitions are much larger. Our mission is to take the world-class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and…
Comment linking /jobs/solutions-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)”BuildBuddy (YC W20) | Engineering | Remote, Bay Area | Full-Time BuildBuddy was founded to give anyone a "Google-style" development environment in minutes. Today we're solving a small piece of this problem with an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel - but our ambitions are much larger. Our mission is to take the world-class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and…
Comment linking /jobs/solutions-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)”Worth pointing out that Build Buddy (YC W20) has an enterprise Bazel product that tries to make some of the management of Bazel easier. I haven't used it myself so no commentary, I just have a friend who started there recently so it's on my radar https://www.buildbuddy.io/ https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/buildbuddy
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on “When to use Bazel?”Additionally, I remember browsing through BuildBuddy's project and saw they used it for build run isolation in their enterprise offering. - https://www.buildbuddy.io - https://github.com/buildbuddy-io/buildbuddy/blob/master/ente...
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on “Firecracker MicroVMs”BuildBuddy (YC W20) | Engineering | Remote, Bay Area | Full-Time BuildBuddy was founded to give anyone a "Google-style" development environment in minutes. Today we're solving a small piece of this problem with an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel - but our ambitions are much larger. Our mission is to take the world-class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and…
Comment linking /jobs/solutions-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)”