Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)
https://jmmv.devA software engineering blog focused on operating systems, build systems, and reliability engineering, drawing from experience with FreeBSD, Bazel, Rust, and major tech companies.
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Or the more tired “One week with Claude Code”-type article. It’s no secret that I’ve been grumpy about the new AI-bas...
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A little over two years ago, I wrote an article titled SSH agent forwarding and tmux done right. In it, I described h...
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Putting FreeBSD’s “power to serve” motto to the test. On Thanksgiving morning, I woke up to one of my web services be...
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It has been just over two years since I started Blog System/5, and that means it’s time for the now-usual(?) BazelCon...
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I’ve heard it from people new to Bazel but also from people very familiar with the Bazel ecosystem: BUILD files must ...
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Imagine this scenario: your team uses Bazel for fast, distributed C++ builds. A developer builds a change on their wo...
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The previous article on Bazel remote caching concluded that using just a remote cache for Bazel builds was suboptimal...
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The previous article on Bazel action non-determinism provided an introduction to actions: what they are, how they are...
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A key feature of Bazel is its ability to produce fast, reliable builds by caching the output of actions. This system,...
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About six months ago, during one of my long runs, I had a wild idea: what if I built an OS disk image that booted str...
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Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into a bit of an obse...
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Hello readers and sorry for the 2-month radio silence. I’ve been pretty busy at work, traveling during school breaks,...
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Today marks the 10th anniversary of Bazel’s public announcement so this is the perfect moment to reflect on what the ...
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Two and a half years ago, I joined Snowflake to help their mission of migrating to Bazel. I spent the first year of t...
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If you grew up in the PC scene during the 1980s or early 1990s, you know how painful it was to get hardware to work. ...