For the past few months, I’ve used mainly Scala programing language. Like any other language, I needed a toolchain to compile my code into something I could run. When I started with Scala, I chose to go with SBT. It went pretty well, but I wasn’t very happy with it – it is a bit slow, dependency management is not amazing, and some other issues.
So I started to look for alternatives, and I was surprised to learn how many alternatives are out there. Of course, I could use any Java tools, like Gradle or Maven – which both support Scala. Like SBT, each has its own downside. While I was looking for other alternatives, I wanted to find something with a good support monorepo development strategy (as we are slowly moving our code to monorepo). And at this point, I found Bazel, a build tool by Google.
Bazel is amazing and it can do a lot of things, including building Scala source code. One of the coolest Bazel features is the built-in support for remote caching, which aims to speed up build time. For lazy developers like me, the coolest thing here is the native support for Google Cloud Storage – so I could have “serverless” cache deployment. This all sounds simple, right? Until you ask: how secure it is? And this is where things become interesting!
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