Thread by @dhh, The HEY stack:- Vanilla Ruby on Rails on the backend, running on [...]

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dhh

The HEY stack:
- Vanilla Ruby on Rails on the backend, running on edge
- Stimulus, Turbolinks, Trix + NEW MAGIC on the front end
- MySQL for DB (Vitess for sharding)
- Redis for short-lived data + caching
- ElasticSearch for indexing
- AWS/K8S

Oh, forgot to mention, this is of course a MAJESTIC MONOLITH

https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-majestic-monolith/

The Majestic Monolith

Monolith by Rene Aigner Some patterns are just about the code. If your code looks like this, and you need it to do that, here’s what to do. You’d do well to study such patterns, as they give you a …

https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-majestic-monolith/

And our development methodology is Shape Up: https://basecamp.com/shapeup

Finally, Basecamp is how we build software at Basecamp. All issues, all features, all pitches, all decisions, all announcements, all check-ins, all everything lives in Basecamp. It's our central source of truth. https://basecamp.com

Replace all over the place with ONE place.

Basecamp is the calm, organized, all-in-one way to work remote.

https://basecamp.com

Although, to be fair, all our code reviews live in GitHub. So do our pull requests. But we don't use issues/wikis/whatever. All that is in Basecamp. But line-by-line code reviews? GitHub is damn excellent for that!

Here's our Gemfile for HEY: https://gist.github.com/dhh/782fb925b57450da28c1e15656779556

HEY's Gemfile

HEY's Gemfile. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

https://gist.github.com/dhh/782fb925b57450da28c1e15656779556

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