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build //newsletter:​issue-4

Stories

• A call for contributions to Bazel’s documentation shares how to contribute to Bazel’s documentation.

• Protecting Project Integrity by Louis Jacomet gives recommendations on how to protect against supply chain attacks in your build system based on a recent incident in Gradle.

• Nix with; with Nickel by François Caddet describes the challenges in transpiling Nix code to Nickel.

• Bazel Central Registry Launched! by Yun Peng announces the official launch of the Bazel Central Registry.

• Devpod: Improving Developer Productivity at Uber with Remote Development by Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai and others introduces Uber’s remote development platform.

• How Gradle Works (1) - Startup by Bo Zhang is the first post in a series to explain the internals of Gradle.

• Tweag case study: From adopting Pants, to generalizing our CI to multiple Python versions by Clément Hurlin.

• Monorepo Build Tools by Adam Gordon Bell gives an overview over the monorepo build tools Bazel, Pants, Nx, and Earthly.

Projects

• bazel-zig-cc v1.0.0 was released; it provides a C/C++ toolchain for Bazel based on zig cc, that supports cross-compilation.

• robotnix builds Android AOSP images with Nix.

Events

• FOSDEM will take place February 4 and 5; devrooms that could be of interest include SBOM, testing and automation, containers, and Nix.