bazel is the open sourced version of Google build tool, and it has proved itself is a nice solution for monolithic server side development. DPDK is a nice solution for user mode packet processing. In our company, we use both to build our products and it greatly reduced the hurdle of rolling out any change because we put the whole DPDK source code into our source tree and the build process can easily produce final binaries at any point(i.e. we can put a fix to DPDK code and the build process will always produce up-to-date binary based on the change).
We pushed all our changes to github in "bazel" branch in case any one wants to try it. At the moment, due to the complexity of setting up bazel BUILD files to handle different compilation settings, we are not actively pursuing to integrate these changes back to upstream. But I'll be happy to answer any question and provide help in case anyone wants to do so.
