Platform · 2015–now · Cloud Scale
Bazel
Hermetic builds for monorepos that hurt until they save you. Google brainworm or serious reproducibility — pick one.
Bazel stuck in large monorepos where reproducible builds pay rent and Gradle fatigue is real. Small teams should run away; platform orgs swear by it. The fad is adopting it without the staff to feed it.
Context
Split everything, then pay for the glue
Hyperscale patterns escaped the companies that needed them. Containers unified packaging; Kubernetes became the cloud OS; microservices and NoSQL were sold as defaults. Mobile-first stuck because screens changed. Cargo-cult distributed systems stuck around as invoices. The durable move was packaging and ops maturity — not rewriting every app into a mesh.
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Platform · 2014–now
Terraform
Declarative infra with state files everyone learns to fear. The closest thing to versioned datacenters.
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Docker / Containers
Ship the environment with the code. The packaging unit of modern compute.
Platform · 2014–now
Kubernetes
Container orchestration that became the cloud's OS. Overkill for many; unavoidable for many others.