Ruby Weekly
Issue 333 — January 26, 2017
PragTob
A year on from running the same benchmark, we find JRuby and Truffleruby leaving MRI far behind performance-wise. YMMV, of course.


David Heinemeier Hansson
Just one answer from an epic Quora session where DHH shared his opinions on JavaScript, performance, and Elixir and Phoenix.


Kate Studwell
How Adwerx broke a monolith into services without breaking existing functionality.


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