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Richard Schneeman
 
Given its constraints, ensuring you have no memory leaks or that you manage them properly is particularly key on Heroku. Richard shares some ideas.
 
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Ryan Paul
 
If you’ve not yet looked into using Opal (the Ruby to JavaScript compiler) for doing front-end work in Ruby, maybe this look at a simple realtime webapp will inspire you.
 
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MIKAMAYHEM
 
Go is a powerful, compiled language (we have a Go Newsletter  by the way!) and since Go 1.5 you can write Ruby extensions with it.
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Heiko Webers
 
Ruby-based considerations and remedies for the top 10 webapp vulnerabilities as determined by the Open Web Application Security Project.
 
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Dalibor Nasevic
 
A look at replacing your OS’ default DNS resolver with a RubyDNS powered one.
 
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Mike Perham
 
Mike recently overhauled Sidekiq to remove the Celluloid multithreading abstraction layer. Why, and does it still make sense for other use cases?
 
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Stefan Wintermeyer
 
AMP is a Google-backed initiative to help developers produce pages that are faster on mobile devices. This 10m video looks at using AMP’s approach in a Rails app.
 
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