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Keith Smiley of Lyft on How to Scale Code with Bazel

In this episode, I welcome Keith Smiley, Principal Engineer and Lead Maintainer of Bazel's iOS support at Lyft. We talk about how the Lyft team is using Bazel and what the advantages are of using this build tool. Keith also shares his team's experience with the Bazel adoption.

Key takeaways:

  • How the Lyft team is using Bazel and monorepos
  • How Lyft adopted Bazel
  • How the Lyft team maintains its build configuration
  • What is Bazel
  • How to get into Bazel
  • Handling flaky tests in Bazel

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In each episode of Semaphore Uncut, we invite software industry professionals to discuss the impact they are making and what excites them about the emerging technologies.

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