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Jul 9 2019

Lower Memory Usage of your Rails App with Jemalloc

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Lower Memory Usage of your Rails App with Jemalloc
By default Ruby uses the glibc for memory allocation. Switching over to jemalloc helped us reduce RAM usage by almost 30%.
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Rails
Dealing with Geospatial data is cumbersome and at the same time, it is fun.
Which types of tests are necessary and which ones aren’t?
Ruby
The following are some interesting changes that might not be as striking as pattern matching or the pipeline operator but are still useful to know about.
On July 5th, 2019, the CVE-2019-13354 security advisory was published for a malicious version of the strong_password Ruby gem which allows for remote code execution
Beyond Ruby
One of the beauties of geeking is that you can enjoy what you do while serving others. 
— become a unicorn engineer 🦄 🌈
Blast from the past
"If it hurts - do it more often"
And now, a friendly message from your local Tell, don’t ask Department.
Gem of the week
Intercept, debug and build with HTTP. Beautiful, cross-platform & open-source HTTP(S) proxy, analyzer and client.

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