Fast Incremental Builds with Speculation and Cancellation

By Stu Hood in Under The Hood on 01 Feb 2021

Fast incremental re-builds are critical in large codebases and monorepos. Thanks to deep support for cancellation and a side-effect free execution model, Pants is able to further reduce re-build latency by speculatively re-executing work.…

Dependency inference: Precise caching and concurrency, without the boilerplate

By Stu Hood in Under The Hood on 29 Oct 2020

Scalable build tools have historically meant a significant boilerplate burden. But it doesn’t have to be that way! Pants v2 supports all of the caching, concurrency, and introspection you need to scale your repository, with significantly less boilerplate, thanks to… Dependency inference!…