--- title: "#360: Is WEBrick Webscale?" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 360 published_at: "2017-08-03" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/360" --- #360: Is WEBrick Webscale? This week's Ruby and Rails news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/360) Ruby WeeklyIssue 360 — August 3, 2017 Richard Schneeman[Is WEBrick Webscale?](https://schneems.com/2017/08/01/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](https://blog.appsignal.com/2017/08/01/ruby-magic-code-interpretation.html)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](https://eventide-project.org/)A toolkit for building a distributed and evented infrastructure that includes commands, events, projections, and support for PostgreSQL and Event Store. VividCortexSponsored[[eBook\] Best Practices for Architecting Highly Monitorable Applications](https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/architecting-highly-monitorable-apps?utm_campaign=Ruby%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc&utm_medium=Best%20Practices%20eBook)Monitoring is highly important in running apps at scale. Apply best practices from this book to avoid pitfalls. 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Andy Fang[Airbnb Open Sources a New, Fast Thrift Binding](https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/accelerating-services-at-airbnb-by-building-a-blazing-fast-thrift-binding-for-ruby-8f63044ba149?new=1)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)](https://x-team.com/ruby-on-rails-developer/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email-ad&utm_campaign=ruby-weekly-q1-17)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](https://x-team.com/ruby-on-rails-developer/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email-ad&utm_campaign=ruby-weekly-q1-17). X-Team - [Senior Backend Engineer at Stash (New York City)](https://www.stashinvest.com/careers?gh_jid=745125&gh_src=abrgws1)We're looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer with a passion for building reliable, scalable, and performant software. 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