#358: How I Reduced My DB Server Load by 80%

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In brief

• RubyKaigi 2017 (Sep 18-20 in Hiroshima, Japan) news
  Speakers announced here. 
  
• Keep Ruby Weird 2017 (October 27 in Austin, Texas) news
  Always a fantastic event. 
  
• Rails 5.1.3.rc1 and 5.0.5.rc1 Released news 
  Official Rails Blog
• Webinar: How to Become a Performance Driven Engineer   
  VividCortex  Sponsored
• Implementing Inheritance with Parameters tutorial
  Ever wondered how ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0] works? Here’s how. 
  Sergii Makagon
• When Distributed Locks Might Be Helpful in Rails tutorial 
  Knapsack Pro
• A Few Helpful RSpec Hints tutorial 
  Jake Yesbeck
• How to Safely Store API Keys in Rails Apps tutorial
  Pros and cons of four approaches to this issue. 
  Arkency
• Use Refinery as a Headless API-First CMS tutorial
  The example creates a Middleman site as the presentation client for the Refinery CMS API. 
  Brice Sanchez
• An In-Depth Look at Ruby's Exception System 
  Ruby's exception system is more powerful than many people realize. This book shows you how to get the most from it. 
  Honeybadger  Sponsored
• Front-End Sadness to Happiness: The React on Rails Story story 
  Justin Gordon
• Audited vs Paper Trail: The Battle for Auditing & Versioning in Rails opinion 
  Runtime Revolution
• How to Interpret a Ruby Stacktrace when Debugging video 
  Go Rails
• Creating Custom Rails Generators video 
  Drifting Ruby
• Secure your Codeship builds with BrakemanPro for Ruby on Rails tools
  Codeship and BrakemanPro have partnered for a more secure devops workflow. 
  Codeship  Sponsored
• inherit_gem: Share RuboCop Rules Across All of Your Repos tools 
  Mike Fotinakis
• Racecar: A Simple Framework for Writing Kafka Consumers code 
  Zendesk
• KBSecret: A Secret/Password Manager Backed by Keybase code 
  William Woodruff
• Spreadsheet Architect: Convert Ruby Objects to Spreadsheets code 
  Weston Ganger
• Twilio Releases Next-Gen Ruby Helper Library code 
  Twilio Blog