Companies using Bazel
acqio
Acqio is a Fintech that provides payment products and services for small and medium merchants. Acqio has a handful of monorepos and uses Bazel along with Kubernetes to deliver fast and reliable microservices.Adobe
Adobe has released Bazel rules for continuous, GitOps driven Kubernetes deployments.Asana
Asana is a web and mobile application designed to help teams track their work. In their own words:Bazel has increased reliability, stability, and speed for all of builds/tests at Asana. We no longer need to clean because of incorrect caches.
Ascend.io
Ascend is a Palo Alto startup that offers solutions for large data sets analysis. Their motto is Big data is hard. We make it easy.ASML
ASML is an innovation leader in the semiconductor industry. We provide chipmakers with everything they need – hardware, software and services – to mass produce patterns on silicon through lithography.Augment Code
Augment Code is the first Developer AI for teams. Every Augment feature is context aware. Every suggestion, completion, and interaction reflects the components, APIs, and coding patterns in your codebase to help your teams build better software.Beeswax
Beeswax is a New York based startup that provides real time bidding as service. Bazel powers their Jenkins based continuous integration and deployment framework. Beeswax loves Bazel because it is blazingly fast, correct and well supported across many languages and platforms.
Braintree
Braintree, a PayPal subsidiary, develops payment solutions for websites and applications. They use Bazel for parts of their internal build and Paul Gross even posted a nice piece about how their switch to Bazel went.Canva
Canva leverages Bazel to manage its large polyglot codebase, which includes Java, TypeScript, Rust, Python, and more. Migration to Bazel has delivered significant developer and compute infrastructure efficiencies, for example 5-6x decreases in average CI build times, and it continues to become the foundation of fast, reproducible, and standardised software builds at the company.CarGurus
CarGurus is on a mission to build the world’s most trusted and transparent automotive marketplace and uses Bazel to build their polyglot monorepo.Compass
Compass is a tech-driven real estate platform. With an elite team of real estate, technology and business professionals, we aim to be the best and most trusted source for home seekers.Databricks
Databricks provides cloud-based integrated workspaces based on Apache Spark™.The Databricks codebase is a Monorepo, containing the Scala code that powers most of our services, Javascript for front-end UI, Python for scripting, Jsonnet to configure our infrastructure, and much more […] Even though our monorepo contains a million lines of Scala, working with code within is fast and snappy. (Speedy Scala Builds with Bazel at Databricks)
Dataform
Dataform provides scalable analytics for data teams. They maintain a handful of NPM packages and a documentation site in one single monorepo and they do it all with Bazel. After the migration to Bazel, they reported many benefits, including:
- Faster CI: we enabled the remote build caching which has reduced our average build time from 30 minutes to 5 (for the entire repository).
- Improvements to local development: no more random bash scripts that you forget to run, incremental builds reduced to seconds from minutes
- Developer setup time: New engineers can build all our code with just 3 dependencies - bazel, docker and the JVM. The last engineer to join our team managed to build all our code in < 30 minutes on a brand new, empty laptop
Deep Silver FISHLABS
Deep Silver FISHLABS is a developer of high-end 3D games. They use Bazel with C++/Python/Go/C as a base for their internal build tooling and especially for baking and deploying all their 3D Assets.Dropbox
At Dropbox, Bazel is a key component to our distributed build and test environment. We use Bazel to combine TypeScript/Python/Go/C/Rust into reliable production releases.Engel & Völkers
Engel & Völkers AG is a privately owned German company that, via a series of franchised offices, provides services related to real estate transactions.One of our internal project has seen a decrease of compilation time from 11 minutes to roughly 1 minute, this was an impressive achievement and we are currently working on bringing Bazel to more projects. (Experimenting with Google Cloud Build and Bazel)
Etsy
Etsy is an e-commerce website focused on handmade or vintage items and supplies, as well as unique factory-manufactured items. They use Bazel to build and test its Java-based search platform. Bazel produces both packages for bare metal servers and repeatable Docker images.Evertz.io
Evertz.io is a multi-tenant, serverless SaaS platform for offering cost effective, multi-regional services worldwide to the Broadcast Media Industry, created by Evertz Microsystems. The website is fully built and deployed with an Angular and Bazel workflow (source).FINDMINE
FINDMINE is a automation technology for the retail industry that uses machine learning to scale the currently manual and tedious process of product curation. We use Bazel to mechanize our entire python package building, testing, and deployment process.Flexport
Flexport is a tech-enabled global freight forwarder; our mission is to make global trade easier for everyone. At Flexport, we use Bazel to build/test our Java/JavaScript services and client libraries and to generate Java and Ruby code from protobuf definitions. Read about how we run individual JUnit 5 tests in isolation with Bazel.Foursquare
Foursquare’s mission is to create technology that constructs meaningful bridges between digital spaces and physical places. We manage millions of lines of primarily Scala and Python code powering data-intensive applications, including complex codegen and container build processes, with Bazel.GermanTechJobs
Bazel has simplified our workflows 10-fold and enabled shipping features at scale.Huawei
Huawei Technologies is using Bazel in about 30 projects, they are Java/Scala/Go projects, except for Go projects, others originally were built by Maven. We write a simple tool to translate a Maven-built project into Bazel-built one. More and more projects will use Bazel in recent future.
IMC Trading
IMC is a global proprietary trading firm and market maker headquarted in Amsterdam. We are using Bazel to continuously build and test our Java/C++/Python/SystemVerilog projects.
Improbable.io
Improbable.io develops SpatialOS, a distributed operating system that enables creating huge simulations inhabited by millions of complex entities.Interaxon
InteraXon is a thought-controlled computing firm that creates hardware and software platforms to convert brainwaves into digital signals.JetBrains
JetBrains is a leading provider of IDEs and developer tools. Since 2022, we’ve been active in the Bazel community, delivering robust polyglot support through plugins for CLion, GoLang, PyCharm, and IntelliJ IDEA. We also use Bazel internally to build these products from our own large-scale monorepo.Jupiter
Jupiter is a company that provides delivery of groceries and household essentials every week. They use Bazel in their backend code, specifically to compile protos and Kotlin to JVM binaries, using remote caching. (source)Just
Just is an enterprise financial technology company, headquartered in Norway, creating software solutions to transform how global corporate treasurers manage risk and liquidity. Their entire application stack is built with Bazel.Line
Line provides an app for instant communications, which is the most popular messaging application in Japan. They use Bazel on their codebase consisting of about 60% Swift and 40% C/C++/Objective-C/Objective-C++ (source).After switching to Bazel, we were able to achieve a huge improvement in the build times. This brought a significant improvement in the turn-around time during a QA period. Distributing a new build to our testers no longer means another hour waiting for building and testing. (Improving Build Performance of LINE for iOS with Bazel)
LingoChamp
LingoChamp provides professional solutions to English learners. We use Bazel for our go, java and python projects.Lucid Software
Lucid Software is a leader in visual collaboration, helping teams see and build the future from idea to reality. With its products—Lucidchart, Lucidspark, and Lucidscale—teams can align around a shared vision, clarify complexity, and collaborate visually, no matter where they’re located. Lucid uses Bazel to build millions of lines of Scala and TypeScript. Migrating to Bazel has tremendously sped up its builds, reduced external dependencies on the build environment, and simplified developers’ experience with the build system. Bazel has improved developer productivity at Lucid and unlocked further growth.Lyft
Lyft is using Bazel for their iOS (source) and Android Apps.Meetup
Meetup is an online social networking portal that facilitates offline group meetings. The Meetup engineering team contributes to rules_scala and is the maintainer of rules_avro and rules_openapi.Nvidia
At Nvidia we have been using dazel(docker bazel) for python to work around some of bazel’s python short comings. Everything else runs in normal bazel (Mostly Go / Scala/ C++/ Cuda) (source)
Peloton Technology
Peloton Technology is an automated vehicle technology company that tackles truck accidents and fuel use. They use Bazel to enable reliable builds for automotive safety systems.Pigweed
Pigweed is an open-source solution for sustained, robust, and rapid embedded product development for large teams. Pigweed has shipped in millions of devices, including Google’s suite of Pixel devices, Nest thermostats, satellites, and autonomous aerial drones. Pigweed uses Bazel as its primary build system. The Bazel for Embedded blog post discusses why we think it’s a great build system for embedded projects!We identified Bazel was the best fit for our goals to build a foundation for an order of magnitude improvement in performance, eliminate variability in build environments and adopt incrementally. As a result, we’re now shipping all our iOS releases using Bazel. Developing fast & reliable iOS builds at Pinterest
PubRef
PubRef is an emerging scientific publishing platform. They use Bazel with rules_closure to build the frontend, native java rules to build the main backend, rules_go, rules_node, and rules_kotlin to build assorted backend services. rules_protobuf is used to assist with gRPC-based communication between backend services. PubRef.org is based in Boulder, CO.Redfin
Redfin is a next-generation real estate brokerage with full-service local agents. They use Bazel to build and deploy the website and various backend services.With the conversion mostly behind us, things are greatly improved! Our CI builds are faster (way faster: they used to take 40–90 minutes, and now dev builds average 5–6 minutes). Reliability is far higher, too. This is harder to quantify, but the shift from unexplained build failures being something that “just happens” to being viewed as real problems to be solved has put us on a virtuous cycle of ever-increasing reliability. (We Switched from Maven to Bazel and Builds Got 10x Faster)
Ritual
Ritual is a mobile pick up app, connecting restaurants with customers to offer a simple, time-saving tool to get the food and beverages they want, without the wait. Ritual uses Bazel for their backend services.Snap
Snap, the developer of Snapchat messaging app, has migrated from Buck to Bazel in 2020 (source). For more details about their process, see their engineering blog.Spotify
Spotify is using Bazel to build their iOS and Android Apps (source).Stripe
Stripe provides mobile payment solutions. They use Bazel in their build and test pipelines, as detailed in their engineering blog.Tinder
Tinder migrated its iOS app from CocoaPods to Bazel in 2021 (source).Tink
Tink is a european fintech, building the best way to connect to banks across Europe. They are using Bazel to build their backend services from a polyglot monorepo. Engineers at Tink are organizing the bazel build //stockholm/… meetup group.Tokopedia
Tokopedia is an Indonesian technology company specializing in e-commerce, with over 90 million monthly active users and over 7 million merchants on the platform. They wrote the article How Tokopedia Achieved 1000% Faster iOS Build Time, where they explain how Bazel sped up their builds. The build duration went from 55 minutes to 10 minutes by using Bazel, and down to 5 minutes with remote caching.Trunk.io
Trunk is a San Francisco-based company backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Initialized Capital. Trunk offers a powerful pull request merge service with first-class support for the Bazel build system. By leveraging Bazel’s understanding of dependencies within a codebase, Trunk’s merge service intelligently creates parallel merge lanes, allowing independent changes to be tested and merged simultaneously.Trunk’s internal monorepo builds modern C++ 20 and typescript all while leveraging bazel graph knowledge to selectively test and merge code.
Two Sigma
Two Sigma is a New York-headquartered technology company dedicated to finding value in the world’s data.TypeDB
TypeDB is a database technology that can be used to intuitively model interconnected data. Through its type-theoretic and polymorphic query language, TypeQL, the data can be accessed with simple, human-readable queries that run at lightspeed. Bazel enables the TypeDB team to build a highly-orchestrated CI and distribution pipeline that manages many repositories in a wide variety of languages, and deploys to numerous platforms seamlessly. The TypeDB team has also released Bazel rules for assembling and deploying software distributions.Uber
Uber is a ride-hailing company. With 900 active developers, Uber’s Go monorepo is likely one of the largest Go repositories using Bazel. See the article Building Uber’s Go Monorepo with Bazel to learn more about their experience.Uber Advanced Technologies Group
Uber Advanced Technologies Group is focused on autonomous vehicle efforts at Uber, including trucking/freight and autonomous ride sharing. The organization uses Bazel as its primary build system.Vistar Media
Vistar Media is an advertising platform that enables brands to reach consumers based on their behavior in the physical world. Their engineering team is primarily based out of Philadelphia and is using Bazel for builds, deploys, to speed up testing, and to consolidate repositories written with a variety of different technologies.VMware
VMware uses Bazel to produce deterministic, reliable builds while developing innovative products for their customers.Wix
Wix is a cloud-based web development platform. Their backend uses Java and Scala code. They use remote execution with Google Cloud Build.We have seen about 5 times faster clean builds when running with bazel remote execution which utilizes bazel’s great build/test parallelism capabilities when it dispatches build/test actions to a worker farm. Average build times are more than 10 times faster due to the utilization of bazel’s aggressive caching mechanism. (Migrating to Bazel from Maven or Gradle? 5 crucial questions you should ask yourself)