goma

You can just point goma at a repo and whatever it inhales is everything needed.

Even in a place like Goma with genocidal Hutus and lunatic Tutsis running around.

These days I work on a team at Google that provides distributed build infrastructure for non-Google3 projects, including goma.

That said, if you're using cached builds via goma and have a nice fat pipe it can go quite fast without making your machine sweat much.

To use the DRC as an example, the national army has virtually no control over the land between Kinshasa, the capital, and cities like Goma and North Kivu.

If I ever find myself in that situation, I hope I can get through it with half the grace and aplomb that Goma managed.

Les is a long-time epidemiologist and sanitation engineer; he's served in dozens of outbreaks and conflict situations including both of the cholera epidemics in Goma following the Rwandan genocide.

(at least) Chromium is built by Googlers w/ the aide of goma, basically a distcc[1].

There's multiple variants of this (goma, rbe).

You could go one step further and tie this in with goma and have the box receive securely built code, so you'd only need to archive git metadata instead of giant blobs.

For example, it has recently emerged that a fellow country man of mine was involved in supplying european mercenaries into the DR Congo, which were caught in the rebel capture of Goma early 2025.

Maybe someone can create a Goma-equivalent for ungoogled chromium, but it's the project's explicit goal to not depend on Google stuff (they actually apply hundreds of patches to the code to remove built-in google service references) so a Google-supplied Goma cache won't be of much use to this project's builds.

- Thailand's Military Government's continued support of the Myanmar Tatmadaw [5], and their "Goma" is Myawaddy, Payathonzhu, Shwekoko (the city mentioned above), and Mawdaung.

I had a lot of thoughts (most of the form “OMG, yes!“) but one thing I told everyone who would listen is that we would never be able to keep up without having a cloud-compilation system akin to Goma.

I owned the distributed build client (Goma fork) of the newest Chromium-based Edge browser, servicing over 500 devs.