Episode 359: Diffend, Security and Running with Ruby with Maciej Mensfeld
The Ruby on Rails Podcast
Show Notes
Maciej Mensfeld is a Software Architect with experience in a wide variety of business applications built using multiple Ruby frameworks. He is particularly interested in code quality assurance and OSS supply chain security. He is an active OSS contributor and maintainer of various projects including Karafka and Diffend.
Links for this episode:
- Castle.io - Castle - Security Automation
- karafka/karafka: Framework for Apache Kafka
- Diffend
- Running with Ruby
- How requiring a gem can mess up your already running application
- Microsoft warns enterprises of new 'dependency confusion' attack technique
- Maciej Mensfeld (@maciejmensfeld) | Twitter
- Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
- Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
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