Platform · 2015–now · Cloud Scale
Bazel
Hermetic builds for monorepos that hurt until they save you. Google brainworm or serious reproducibility — pick one.
Why Bazel stuck
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.
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Terraform
Declarative infra with state files everyone learns to fear. The closest thing to versioned datacenters — then BSL and OpenTofu.
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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.