Email template
Product newsletter
Send an engineering newsletter with a lead essay and diagram, shorter stories with small tiles, a changelog list and one action.
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See the email before you edit.
Subject
Basalt Notes 14: The slowest span is rarely the one to fix
Preheader
A trace lists the longest span first. The span that decides how long your request takes is often a different one, so the trace view now draws that one first.
Make it fit the send.
- Supply the issue number and month, the lead title, author, summary and diagram, and the essay as a list of paragraphs. The stories are a list of image, title, summary and link and the changelog a list of lines, so an issue of three stories and one of five render from the same source.
- The subject is built from the issue number and the lead title. The headings, button labels and footer are editable copy; point the issue and essay links at your own site and wire the preference and unsubscribe links before sending.
- It is written for Basalt, a fictional data platform for backend teams. Replace its mark, the diagram and the story tiles with your own images. Every color and font is a theme token set in starter.css, so a restyle edits that file.
Data this template expects.
- {{changelog}}
- Value for changelog.
- {{issueMonth}}
- Value for issue month.
- {{issueNumber}}
- Value for issue number.
- {{issueUrl}}
- Link for issue.
- {{leadAuthor}}
- Value for lead author.
- {{leadBody}}
- Value for lead body.
- {{leadImage}}
- Value for lead image.
- {{leadSummary}}
- Value for lead summary.
- {{leadTitle}}
- Value for lead title.
- {{leadUrl}}
- Link for lead.
- {{preferencesUrl}}
- Link for preferences.
- {{stories}}
- Value for stories.
- {{unsubscribeUrl}}
- Link for unsubscribe.