Bazel for Everyone? Hard Questions with Confluent Engineers

Is Bazel a tool for the masses or a purpose-built solution best kept in the hands of power users? Farid Zakaria and Vince Rose, two Bazel-savvy engineers from Confluent, join Alex Eagle to discuss what Bazel gets right, where it draws hard lines, and why adoption isn't always straightforward. From strict expectations to the rise of prebuilt binaries, we unpack how Bazel's opinions shape real-world engineering tradeoffs.