Unicorn
Unofficial Unicorn Mirror. (by defunkt)
Iodine
iodine - HTTP / WebSockets Server for Ruby with Pub/Sub support (by boazsegev)
| Unicorn | Iodine | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 1,415 | 893 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.9 | 4.3 | |
| 22 days ago | 10 days ago | |
| Ruby | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Unicorn
Posts with mentions or reviews of Unicorn.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-18.
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Adventures in Garbage Collection: Improving GC Performance in our Massive Monolith (2023)
It's extremely similar to the original OOBGC implementation for Unicorn: https://github.com/defunkt/unicorn/blob/master/lib/unicorn/oob_gc.rb
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What exactly is a pre-fork web server model?
I want to know what exactly it means when a web server describes itself as a pre-fork web server. I have a few examples such as unicorn for ruby and gunicorn for python.
- We found and fixed a rare race condition in our session handling
Iodine
Posts with mentions or reviews of Iodine.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-04.
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Rage: Fast web framework compatible with Rails
Most of the speed I believe is from using the server iodine https://github.com/boazsegev/iodine which is a wrapper around facil.io https://facil.io that is built using C.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Unicorn and Iodine you can also consider the following projects:
Puma - A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism
Thin - A very fast & simple Ruby web server
Phusion Passenger - A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js
Rack - A modular Ruby web server interface.
falcon - A high-performance web server for Ruby, supporting HTTP/1, HTTP/2 and TLS.
Goliath - Goliath is a non-blocking Ruby web server framework
TorqueBox - TorqueBox Ruby Platform
Reel