Unicorn
Unofficial Unicorn Mirror. (by defunkt)
Goliath
Goliath is a non-blocking Ruby web server framework (by postrank-labs)
| Unicorn | Goliath | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 1,418 | 2,436 | |
| 0.2% | 0.0% | |
| 5.0 | 3.7 | |
| 4 months ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| 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.
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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
Goliath
Posts with mentions or reviews of Goliath.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-08.
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16 Best Ruby Frameworks For Web Development
The Goliath project can be accessed through its GitHub repository page. Goliath boasts a powerful feature of decluttering the complicated asynchronous requests into a linear execution communication process. The asynchronous mechanism of Goliath can hence be used very quickly for streaming the data, firehose API, etc. Also, Goliath is open-source, which has been a significant factor in its linear development over time. If you are into web-server development in Ruby, you will love working in Goliath.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Unicorn and Goliath you can also consider the following projects:
Puma - A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism
Rack - A modular Ruby web server interface.
Thin - A very fast & simple Ruby web server