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Hermetic Build Systems, Monorepos, and Content-Addressed Compilation: Make's Flaw, Bazel/Buck2 Action Graphs, Nix Derivations, Remote Execution, and Reproducible Builds
Welcome to The Deep End. We are in the developer infrastructure and build-engineering lab of Kestrel Systems, a financial technology firm whose core monorepo holds forty-two million lines of code across C++, Rust, Go, Python, and Protocol Buffers, touched by fourteen hundred engineers landing eight hundred pull requests a day. It is Monday morning at nine-fifteen, and Staff Build Systems Architect Devon Brooks is staring at three simultaneous build emergencies brought to his desk by Principal Compiler Engineer Dr. Nadia Al-Mansoor: 1. Emergency Number One — The Corrupt make -j16 Build: Ten…
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