Birth of the Bazel
An inside perspective of open sourcing Google’s build tool.
Bazel was announced on March 24, 2015, by unveiling https://bazel.io and dumping code on https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel. Its development has been somewhat public ever since, but it has never been documented how we got to that point. I was one of the people who started this project, so let me tell you how it happened.