NOTE: This document is a work-in-progress.
We’re partway through a migration of our build system to Bazel. Bazel is a modern build system with better performance characteristics and correctness guarantees than we currently have with make/go build. Today, you can perform most day-to-day CRDB dev tasks with Bazel rather than with make -- and for the few tasks that you can’t/don’t know how to do with Bazel, please ask a question or contribute a solution. The Bazel migration is actively in progress and we always accept contributions even for minor/QOL improvements.
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