#360: Is WEBrick Webscale?

This week's Ruby and Rails news Read this e-mail on the Web Ruby Weekly Issue 360 — August 3, 2017 Richard Schneeman Is WEBrick Webscale? A performance comparison between Nginx and WEBrick on a simple site. You might be surprised by the answer. AppSignal Blog A Look At How Ruby Interprets Your Code Ruby provides tools that show how the code and its instructions will be provided to the YARV interpreter. Eventide Project Eventide: A Microservices and Event Sourcing Toolkit for Ruby A toolkit for building a distributed and evented infrastructure that includes commands, events, projections, and support for PostgreSQL and Event Store. VividCortex  Sponsored [eBook] Best Practices for Architecting Highly Monitorable Applications Monitoring is highly important in running apps at scale. Apply best practices from this book to avoid pitfalls. Sam Pohlenz Trestle: A Modern, Responsive Admin Framework for Rails Build your back-end quickly and easily using Trestle’s admin builder DSL. (Note: LGPL licensed.) Avdi Grimm Riffing on 'interpose' Implementations in Ruby A refactoring of the interpose method implemented in a previous article (which we linked to last week) that uses a yield-based approach. Máté Solymosi Creating a Ruby DSL: A Guide to Metaprogramming Learn how to create your own DSL by using Ruby’s powerful metaprogramming features. Andy Fang Airbnb Open Sources a New, Fast Thrift Binding Sparsam is Airbnb’s implementation of Thrift Serializer in Ruby and here they explain how it’s of significant benefit to them. Jobs Ruby on Rails Developer at X-Team (Remote)We are 100% remote. We'll work with you 1-on-1 to motivate and fund you to learn, grow and build a legacy. Join X-Team. X-Team Senior Backend Engineer at Stash (New York City)We're looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer with a passion for building reliable, scalable, and performant software. Stash Backend Platform Engineer at HotelTonight (SF)We're an award winning mobile platform that delivers personalized experiences for booking last-minute hotels. Build and question with an awesome team culture. HotelTonight Can't find the right job? Want companies to apply to you? Try Hired.com. In brief Southeast Ruby Conference Tickets Available (Oct 5-6 - Nashville, TN) news  Southeast Ruby Conference Rails 5.0.5 and 5.1.3.rc3 Released news  Official Rails Blog How to optimize Ruby apps  Troubleshoot slow requests with interactive flame graphs. Try Datadog APM + infrastructure monitoring free.  Datadog  Sponsored Unsupervised Learning Using K-means Clustering in Ruby tutorial The example is for a fake beer distribution business in California and clusters populous cities using K-means clustering.  Practical AI A Few Tips to Improve the Speed of Your Test Suite tutorial  Benoit Tigeot Cleaning Up Path Definitions with __dir__ tutorial It’s been available since Ruby 2.0.  Lint Your Ruby Code with Overcommit and Static Analysis Tools tutorial Using Git hooks to control code quality for Ruby, Rails and Chef.  Kirill Shevchenko Building Crazy Queries with ActiveRecord and Arel tutorial  Pierre Yager Asynchronous Elasticsearch Reindexing with Rails, Searchkick, and Sidekiq tutorial  Vincent van Gemert Ruby 2.4 Avoids Exception for Integer#dup tutorial  Big Binary Custom Error Pages with Slack Notification in Rails video  Drifting Ruby A Chat with Pickaxe Author Dave Thomas on Computer Science and Ruby podcast  Ruby Rogues Why We Broke Our Philosophical Vows to Bring You CircleCI 2.0 story  CircleCI  Sponsored Why Hanami Will Never Unseat Rails opinion Rails gets dinged for being too magical, but Hanami has its own bits of magic, too.  Boffinism Ordinare: Sort Gems in Your Gemfile Alphabetically tools It respects groups and comments, too.  Nikola Đuza Securing Rails Applications with Brakeman Pro tools  Brakeman Pro  Sponsored Orchparty: A DSL for Configuring Orchestration code For generating docker-compose.yml files.  Jannis Hübl Curated by Peter Cooper and Glenn Goodrich, and published by Cooperpress. Send feedback by simply replying to this mail. Want to sponsor an issue? See our media kit. Want to post a job? Email us or use our self-serve system. Unsubscribe | Change email address | Read this issue on the Web © Cooperpress Ltd. Office 30, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK Email policy Privacy policy