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newscase-studiesAugust 28, 2026 · 6 minutes

How Menlo Security Cut Chromium Build Times from 4.5 Hours to 25 Minutes with NativeLink

"NativeLink is the simplest way to get fast builds with Chromium." Christopher Staite, Principal Engineer, Menlo Security

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newscase-studiesSeptember 25, 2025 · 2 minutes

Case Study: LastMile AI

LastMile AI is an AI startup creating tools to enable developers to build AI agents. The team comes from backgrounds in top research and engineering organizations, building infrastructure and devel…

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newscase-studiesMarch 6, 2025 · 7 minutes

Thirdwave Automation and NativeLink

“Our business relies on delivering autonomous systems with an exceptional level of safety. With NativeLink’s massively-parallel cloud service, we can now iterate faster and continuously learn from…

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newscase-studiesJanuary 21, 2025 · 3 minutes

Fortune 50 Manufacturer Uses NativeLink For 20x Accelerated Build Speed and 30x Improved Storage Density

A Fortune 50 Manufacturer builds a Chromium-based browser, and it has been an integral part of their product lineup, requiring robust and efficient build infrastructure to keep up with its evolving…

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newscase-studiesAugust 13, 2024 · 2 minutes

Case Study: CIQ

CIQ is an enterprise company that specializes in Linux distribution, computing infrastructure, and cluster management and provisioning systems. They have a deep running commitment to supporting ope…

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Announcements

announcementsremote-executionroboticsbiologysemiconductorsSeptember 8, 2026 · 8 minutes

The Inaugural RE API Fellow

When people first see the open source NativeLink repository on GitHub, they think about CI: continuous integration, the practice of building and testing software every time someone pushes a change.…

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announcementsroboticssimulationbazelAugust 27, 2026 · 8 minutes

From One Robot to 1,000 with rules_omniverse

Today we are releasing our first official Bazel ruleset for physical AI. It is built to carry robotics work from research to production.

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newsannouncementsSeptember 17, 2024 · 30 seconds

NativeLink - The free & open source simulation infrastructure platform written in Rust

Today, we're excited to release NativeLink–a Rust implementation of Bazel's Remote Build Execution protocol (RBE) and Content Addressable Storage (CAS) designed to run your code and get out of the…

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newsannouncementsSeptember 10, 2024 · 30 seconds

TraceMachina: Seed Funding

Trace Machina secures funding and launches NativeLink out of stealth to deliver simulation infrastructure for safety-critical technologies

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Blog

securityblog-postsNovember 3, 2026 · 4 minutes

The Bomb in Your Bill of Materials

Most software bombs don't go off the day they're dropped. A living SBOM and fast, reproducible verification help teams find vulnerabilities and ship fixes.

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tutorialcmakebuild-accelerationblog-postsAugust 12, 2025 · 8 minutes

Supercharge Your C/C++ Builds without Migrating to Bazel: A Tutorial for CMake, Nativelink and BuildStream

Slow build times can be a major drag on developer productivity. Waiting for your code to compile and build can interrupt your flow and waste valuable time. Lots of companies have moved to Bazel and…

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newsblog-postsMay 15, 2025 · 5 minutes

Trust Root Support in Nativelink

Open source thrives on community contributions, and today’s story is a perfect example of why. External engineer Sam Eskandar identified a pain point in Nativelink's TLS configuration and delivered…

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newsblog-postsMay 15, 2025 · 20 minutes

Fine-tune a Language Model on x86 CPUs using Bazel and NativeLink

The future of AI development belongs not necessarily to those with the most powerful infrastructure but to those who can extract maximum value from available resources. This tutorial emphasizes CPU…

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newsblog-postsDecember 4, 2024 · 4 minutes

NativeLink for Semiconductors

NativeLink has become a critical architectural component for companies developing custom silicon. From the outset, our mission was to build an open-source simulation platform designed to scale with…

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