Aspect Build provides expert support and a developer productivity platform to simplify the operation of Bazel at scale. Their platform offers tools like AXL for task management, remote caching for performance boosts, and CI runners for streamlined workflows. This offering reduces the complexity associated with multi-language build systems, accelerating Bazel adoption for engineering teams.
Funding
$3.9M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Software development teams using Bazel often face challenges in optimizing their build workflows, leading to slower build times and increased cloud compute costs. Existing CI systems may not fully leverage Bazel's incremental build capabilities, resulting in redundant computations and inefficient resource utilization.
Solution
Aspect Workflows provides a developer platform designed to optimize Bazel-based workflows for monorepos, enabling faster builds and reduced cloud compute costs. The platform offers remote build execution and self-hosted caching, which minimizes redundant computations by leveraging Bazel’s built-in incrementality. Aspect Workflows integrates with existing CI systems and offers features such as automated linting to maintain code quality. By streamlining the development process, Aspect Workflows allows teams to focus on delivering exceptional products while minimizing infrastructure management overhead.
Target Audience
Aspect Workflows targets software development teams, particularly those working with monorepos and using Bazel as their build system, who are looking to improve build speed, reduce cloud compute costs, and streamline their development workflows.
Features
- Remote build execution to offload tasks to multiple remote machines, accelerating build times
- Self-hosted caching to minimize cloud costs by leveraging Bazel’s built-in incrementality
- Automated linting to ensure code quality at scale
- Web UI to highlight critical information needed to resolve build failures
- Support for multiple languages, scaling with the organization as it grows
- Integration with existing CI systems such as Buildkite, CircleCI, and GitHub Actions
- Selective Delivery to optimize continuous delivery pipelines by automatically detecting and delivering only targets affected by a change set