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|  | title: Understanding Bazel | 
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|  | heading: Understanding Bazel | 
|  | description: > | 
|  | Gain context around Bazel design decisions, learn vital concepts, and understand Bazel releases and versioning. | 
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|  | - heading: Read about the build system | 
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|  | path: /basics/ | 
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|  | Discover a short history of how artifact-based build systems evolved to enable scale, speed, and hermeticity. | 
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|  | - heading: Understand fundamental concepts | 
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|  | path: /concepts/build-ref | 
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|  | Learn foundational concepts including source code layout, BUILD file syntax, and the types of rules and dependencies. | 
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|  | - heading: Check releases and updates | 
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|  | path: /release/ | 
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|  | See Bazel's Long Term Support including release notes, policies, timelines, announcements, and testing. | 
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