32: DHH - Building Basecamp 3 like a Porsche 911

DHH returns to the podcast to talk in-depth about how Basecamp 3 is designed and implemented!

Show Notes

Topics include:

• Why Basecamp is a "majestic monolith", and the impact of organizational shape and size on technical decision making in product development
• How ActionCable works, and where Basecamp 3 uses websockets that you might not expect
• Strategies for avoiding duplication in client-side and server-side code
• The automated testing strategy for Basecamp 3, and how it's influencing the future of testing in Rails 5
• Why Basecamp 3 has 179 controllers, and what you can learn from their approach that will clean up your codebase

This episode is brought to you by Laracasts.

Links

• Basecamp 3
• Business of Software talk on Rewriting Basecamp
• RailsConf presentation introducing ActionCable and Turbolinks 3
• Trix, Basecamp's new open source WYSIWYG editor
• Rake Stats for Basecamp 3
• Rails 5.0.0.beta1 announcement
• DHH on Medium
• Sponsored by Laracasts

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