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Gunicorn vs Apache Tomcat: What are the differences?
Developers describe Gunicorn as "A Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX". Gunicorn is a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with various web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resources, and fairly speedy. On the other hand, Apache Tomcat is detailed as "An open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies". Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations.
Gunicorn and Apache Tomcat belong to "Web Servers" category of the tech stack.
"Python" is the primary reason why developers consider Gunicorn over the competitors, whereas "Easy" was stated as the key factor in picking Apache Tomcat.
Gunicorn and Apache Tomcat are both open source tools. It seems that Gunicorn with 5.96K GitHub stars and 1.12K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Apache Tomcat with 3.51K GitHub stars and 2.4K GitHub forks.
ebay, Intuit, and Evernote are some of the popular companies that use Apache Tomcat, whereas Gunicorn is used by Instagram, Fitocracy, and Kippt. Apache Tomcat has a broader approval, being mentioned in 566 company stacks & 430 developers stacks; compared to Gunicorn, which is listed in 184 company stacks and 51 developer stacks.
I was in a situation where I have to configure 40 RHEL servers 20 each for Apache HTTP Server and Tomcat server. My task was to 1. configure LVM with required logical volumes, format and mount for HTTP and Tomcat servers accordingly. 2. Install apache and tomcat. 3. Generate and apply selfsigned certs to http server. 4. Modify default ports on Tomcat to different ports. 5. Create users on RHEL for application support team. 6. other administrative tasks like, start, stop and restart HTTP and Tomcat services.
I have utilized the power of ansible for all these tasks, which made it easy and manageable.
Pros of Gunicorn
- Python34
- Easy setup30
- Reliable8
- Light3
- Fast3
Pros of Apache Tomcat
- Easy79
- Java72
- Popular49
- Spring web1
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Cons of Gunicorn
Cons of Apache Tomcat
- Blocking - each http request block a thread1
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