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shinzui | 3 years ago

It's worth noting that Basecamp's architecture relies on vertical scaling, which can get very expensive in the cloud.

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qeternity|3 years ago

How so? Email is a fairly embarrassingly parallel problem.

shinzui|3 years ago

DHH’s preferred architecture is a rails monolith with a single database behind it that you keep scaling vertically. I believe both Hey and Basecamp are still using that architecture.