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Denver ‘Office Hours’ on Thursday at Galvanize

We’re hanging out in Denver this week and wanted to say ‘hi.’ We’ll be at Galvanize on Thursday from 2 – 6 pm where you can come and chat about all things New Relic, Ruby and Game of Thrones. Stop by to check out Galvanize, hang out with us or just grab a t-shirt. See [...]

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Heroku CTO Publishes Complete Routing and Performance FAQ

Heroku’s routing mesh and queue time has been a regular topic of conversation over the past few months. If you are new to the conversation, you can catch up on our blog about this topic. As part of this conversation, we updated our Ruby agent to improve the accuracy of the queue time metrics. Today [...]

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Improving Tradition with Technology: Obama for America Tech Team Infographic

In January, we hosted Coding Forward, a three-city tour highlighting the ground-breaking effort by the Obama for America technology team. We were guided through the team’s growth, technology stack and war stories. Through it all, the small team capitalized on web and mobile technologies to capture massive donations, volunteers and votes. From the scalable contributions [...]

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Australian Ruby Rising

The land of Vegemite, drop bears, and the Thunderdome is bursting at the seams with Rubyists. And they descended upon Melbourne, Australia last week to take part in the inaugural RubyConf AU. The three-day conference included in-depth workshops, hilarious keynotes and insightful sessions covering the wide spectrum of software development with Ruby. In fact, Australia [...]

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New Relic and Rubygems Security

Earlier today, the Ruby community was made aware of a potentially serious breach to Rubygems.org, the external library hosting system used exhaustively in Ruby. The center of the problem was an exploit in a YAML parser that allowed for arbitrary code execution. In this case, a gem was uploaded to Rubygems.org that executed code that [...]

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