What's the context for this - as in, the 'we' in question and the thing they were building with bazel? And are they really posting from March 16, 2018?
I probably should have made the context clearer earlier in the post - later on I mention :
"To set the scene, our codebase is mainly Go, including vendor directories, and a considerable amount of data compiled in, we have 2.5M lines of code, a full build from a clean clone on one of our Jenkins slaves takes 1 minute.
We had between 8 and 20 engineers working on that codebase. Importantly we all develop on Mac, but run in production in linux."
"To set the scene, our codebase is mainly Go, including vendor directories, and a considerable amount of data compiled in, we have 2.5M lines of code, a full build from a clean clone on one of our Jenkins slaves takes 1 minute.
We had between 8 and 20 engineers working on that codebase. Importantly we all develop on Mac, but run in production in linux."