We're excited to share that v1.8.0 of BuildBuddy is live on Cloud Hosted BuildBuddy, Enterprise, and Open Source via GitHub, Docker, and our Helm Charts!

Thanks to everyone using open source, cloud-hosted, and enterprise BuildBuddy. We've made lots of improvements in this release based on your feedback.

A special thank you to our new open-source contributor:

• Ashley Davies who contributed several pull requests to our Helm charts in order to make them easier to use in clusters that already have an Nginx controller deployed.

And a warm welcome to our three new team members!

• Pari Parajuli who joins our engineering team as an intern who's currently studying at University of California, Berkeley.
• Vadim Berezniker who joins our engineering team after 7 years at Google on the Google Cloud team.
• Zoey Greer who joins us as a software engineer from the Google Search team.

We're excited to continue growing BuildBuddy and fulfill our mission of making developers more productive!

Our focus for this release was on reliability, performance, improved documentation, and making BuildBuddy easier to release and monitor.

We're excited to share that v1.5.0 of BuildBuddy is live on both Cloud Hosted BuildBuddy and open-source via Github, Docker, and our Helm Charts!

Thanks to everyone using open source, cloud-hosted, and enterprise BuildBuddy. We've made lots of improvements in this release based on your feedback.

A special thank you to our new open-source contributor:

• Corbin McNeely-Smith who contributed to making our auth flow more resilient to error cases, and made our health-check handlers more flexible to support different load-balancers.

Our focus for this release was on giving users more visibility into test flakiness, monitoring & scaling improvements, and security hardening.

We're excited to share that v1.4.0 of BuildBuddy is live on both Cloud Hosted BuildBuddy and open-source via Github and Docker!

Thanks to everyone using open source, cloud-hosted, and enterprise BuildBuddy. We've made lots of improvements in this release based on your feedback.

A special thank you to our new contributors who we'll soon be sending BuildBuddy t-shirts and holographic BuildBuddy stickers:

• Daniel Purkhús who enabled environment variable expansion in BuildBuddy config files & more

• Joshua Katz who added support for auto-populating build metadata from GitLab CI invocations

Our focus for this release was on giving users new tools to share, compare, analyze, and manage BuildBuddy invocations - as well as major performance and reliability improvements to our remote build execution service.

We're also excited to share that over the coming weeks and months, we'll be open sourcing much more of BuildBuddy - including our remote build execution platform. At BuildBuddy we're firmly committed to open source and believe that a transparent and open model is the only way to build truly great developer infrastructure for all.

To fulfill our mission of bringing the world's best developer tools to every company, we're building a team that's ready to work with the world's best enterprises. That's why we're excited to share today that George Li is joining BuildBuddy to lead our enterprise sales efforts as our Head of Sales.

George joins us from Looker where he served as Head of APAC Sales Engineering. He joined Google Cloud through their acquisition of Looker in February, having helped the company grow to a $2.6B valuation.

We look forward to working alongside George to build the future of developer tools.

Welcome to BuildBuddy, George!

We're excited to share that v1.3.0 of BuildBuddy is live on both Cloud Hosted BuildBuddy and open-source via Github and Docker!

Thanks to everyone using open source and cloud-hosted BuildBuddy. We’ve made lots of improvements in this release based on your feedback.

Our focus for this release was on giving users new tools to improve build performance, debug cache hits, and a completely redesigned Cloud & Enterprise experience.

Excited to share that v1.2.1 of BuildBuddy is live on both Cloud Hosted BuildBuddy and open source via Github and Docker!

Thanks to everyone that has tested open source and cloud-hosted BuildBuddy. We've made lots of improvements in this release based on your feedback.

A special welcome to our newest contributor and team member:

• Brandon Duffany - Brandon is an ex-Googler and Cornell alumn who's worked as a software engineer on Google Assistant and Google Ads. He'll start off focused on surfacing better profiling and timing information to help users track down and fix slow builds!

Our focus for this release was on expanding access to BuildBuddy as well as improving scalability and performance.

We're also excited to announce that we're expanding the BuildBuddy Cloud free tier. BuildBuddy Cloud is now free for teams of up to 3 engineers in addition to being free for individuals open source projects of any size.

Excited to share that v1.1.0 of BuildBuddy is live on both Cloud Hosted BuildBuddy and open source via Github and Docker!

Thanks to everyone that has tested open source and cloud-hosted BuildBuddy. We've made lots of improvements in this release based on your feedback.

A special thank you to our new contributors:

• Sergio Rodriguez Orellana who contributed support for making dense mode the default view mode.
• Tim Glaser who made some major improvements to our documentation.

Our focus for this release was on our new Remote Build Execution platform. This release marks a huge step in fulfilling our mission of making developers more productive by supporting the Bazel ecosystem.

BuildBuddy's Remote Build Execution platform supports executing your Bazel build and tests in parallel across thousands of machines with automatic scaling, support for custom Docker images, and more. We've been iterating on and testing BuildBuddy RBE for months with companies of different sizes, and are excited to now make it available to everyone.

Excited to share that v1.0.6 of BuildBuddy is live on both Cloud Hosted BuildBuddy and open source via Github and Docker!

Thanks to all of you that have been using open source and cloud-hosted BuildBuddy. We've made lots of improvements in this release based on your feedback.

A special thank you to our new contributors:

• Roger Hu who contributed Amazon S3 storage support.
• Andrew Allen who updated BuildBuddy's open source repo to conform to open source golang expectations.

Our three major focuses for this release were on a better test results view, certificate based authentication, and our new results-store API.

We also laid a lot of groundwork for remote build execution in this release, which will be available in the coming weeks.

We released our initial open source version of BuildBuddy to the Bazel community last month and have received a ton of interest, support, and feedback. We really appreciate everyone who's taken the time to kick the tires and try it out!

We're excited to share that BuildBuddy has been run on-prem at over 20 companies, and hundreds more developers have tried our cloud-hosted version.

People have found the shareable invocation links particularly useful when debugging builds remotely with co-workers while working from home. No more pasting console outputs into Pastebin!

We've taken all of the feedback we've gotten and made lots of improvements to both the open source and enterprise versions of BuildBuddy.

Our three major focuses for this release were on better build artifact handling, better test support, and enterprise authentication. We hope these changes help you continue to build and debug software faster. Keep the feedback coming!

If you've hung out around developers for any extended period --- you've probably heard "my code is compiling" as an excuse from them when they're slacking off and browsing Hacker News.

Slow, flaky builds waste hours of developer time --- leading to slow dev refresh cycles and unhappy, unproductive engineers. This is the problem we're solving at BuildBuddy.

BuildBuddy is a managed Bazel build system. It brings a Google-style development environment and 10x faster builds to any company.

We're excited to share that we've been accepted into Y Combinator and have been participating in their Winter 2020 batch. Here's a photo from our first batch dinner where the founders of Airbnb (YC Winter 2009) told us stories about their YC experience:

We're excited to share more about BuildBuddy in the coming months. If you intrigued and want to learn more - feel free to shoot us an email at hello@buildbuddy.io.

BuildBuddy is a managed Bazel build system --- it brings a Google-style development environment to any company in minutes.

The first product we've built is an open-core Bazel build log viewer. It consumes the Bazel build event protocol and makes logs accessible through a user-friendly web UI. If you're familiar with Google's Sponge tool - it's basically an open source version of that. It's available in 3 forms:

• Open source - You can find the core product open source and free to use with an MIT license on GitHub.
• Cloud hosted - We also offer a cloud hosted version of the product at buildbuddy.io. Plans range from a free version for personal use to an enterprise version suited for companies with complex needs.
• On-prem - We offer an enterprise version of the product that you can run on-premises or in your own cloud. This version comes with all the bells and whistles - like dashboards, user accounts, and dedicated support.

The Bazel build log viewer is just the start. We're working on a shared build cache, remote build execution, and more.

Our end goal is to take the pain out of managing Bazel, so you can focus on building your product.

Reach out to us at hello@buildbuddy.io if you're interested, we'd love to chat!