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

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    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

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

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    And our development methodology is Shape Up:

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    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. basecamp.com

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    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!

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    Here's our Gemfile for HEY:

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    Also Firebase for install metrics