Pinterest's Journey to a Bazel Monorepo

Learn about Pinterest's three-year journey toward implementing a Bazel monorepo in this 16-minute conference talk from BazelCon 2020. Discover how Pinterest successfully Bazelized their Cpp monorepo and separate Go repositories, with ongoing migrations for Java, Python, and NodeJS codebases. Speaker Eden JnBaptiste addresses critical challenges encountered during this transition, including how to build deployment artifacts at scale using Bazel, manage third-party dependencies across hundreds of projects in a single WORKSPACE, release versioned artifacts in a language-independent way, and determine how much Bazel knowledge contributors need. Gain valuable insights into Pinterest's solutions for creating a multi-language monorepo built with Bazel.