Introduction I’ve recently been talking to a colleague about the art of architecting software systems. In many ways, we agree that it’s a lost art, yet it’s far from a bygone era. The rise of the “Cloud” may seem to have solved all of the issues that come with scale, but…

Introduction Recently I’ve become somewhat obsessed with platform and framework agnosticism in the web. Maybe it’s me living through the decline of JQuery, the rise and subsequent fall of AngularJS (1.X), and the current golden era of React. In many ways, it feels like the frontend is often at the peak…

Introduction Bazel is a fast and scalable build tool that supports multiple languages and is easily extensible. Bazel came about after Google spun off part of it’s internal build tool, Blaze, as open-source software. Bazel is simialr to tools such as Make, Ant, and Maven. Bazel’s strong points come from fully…