Keynote: Chatting with David
summary
Launch recounts: Hey launches badly then recovers, built an email service that required writing Active Record encryption into Rails, an internal Ruby mail server prototype, and operational work atop Postfix; traffic experience is concrete — Basecamp already sends 5 million emails a day — and deliverability, 2FA-for-paying-users, parsing and storage scale force surprising engineering choices. Front end specifics: Hotwire subsumes Turbolinks; 40KB front end vs 3.6MB Gmail and a push to remove webpack via import maps for Rails 7.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Keynote introduction
- 1:50Launching Hey.com
- 3:36Why email is hardest
- 7:07Email server in Ruby
- 10:17Two-factor auth in Hey
- 14:29Email protocols complexity
- 16:12Retro gaming IP reform
- 21:49Hotwire Stimulus for Rails
- 26:47Hotwire paradigm shift
- 31:45Programming paradigms
- 41:36Apple vs. Hey store
- 46:58Open platforms erosion
- 55:50Rails 7 JavaScript
- 1:02:07Simplifying Rails with Hotwire
