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HEY, Were Building Better Email with Blake Stoddard

Published: Aug. 20, 2020, 10 a.m.

Blake Stoddard is a senior site reliability engineer at Basecamp who\u2019s tasked with running and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications running on-premises, in AWS ECS, and in Kubernetes. Previously, he served as the chief executive officer at Coursix, Inc., a company that built software solutions for schools. In 2018, Blake earned a bachelor\u2019s in business management with a concentration in IT from North Carolina State University.\n\nJoin Corey and Blake as they discuss the recent saga of Basecamp taking on Apple, Basecamp\u2019s email platform HEY and Blake\u2019s role in its development, tracking pixels and why they\u2019re a terrible thing, how HEY solves the tracking pixel problem, how everything Basecamp designs is intended to last until the end of the internet, what Basecamp\u2019s hybrid cloud environment looks like, why organizations shouldn\u2019t simply move to the cloud to transfer CAPEX to OPEX, how Basecamp uses Kubernetes, and more.