--- title: "#357: Is Ruby Too Slow For 'Web-Scale'?" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 357 published_at: "2017-07-13" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/357" --- #357: Is Ruby Too Slow For 'Web-Scale'? This week's Ruby and Rails news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/357) Ruby WeeklyIssue 357 — July 13, 2017 Nate Berkopec[Is Ruby Too Slow For 'Web-Scale'?](https://www.speedshop.co/2017/07/11/is-ruby-too-slow-for-web-scale.html)A detailed look at the fallacy of benchmarks & what matters when it comes to creating web apps. Ruby on Rails[Active Storage: Store Files in Rails Applications](https://github.com/rails/activestorage)Due to become a part of Rails 5.2, Active Storage makes it simple to upload and reference files in cloud services, like Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage, and attach those files to records. 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