32: DHH - Building Basecamp 3 like a Porsche 911
Dec 22, 2015•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 32
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Episode description
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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