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Puma vs Unicorns: What are the differences?
What is Puma? A Modern, Concurrent Web Server for Ruby. Unlike other Ruby Webservers, Puma was built for speed and parallelism. Puma is a small library that provides a very fast and concurrent HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby web applications.
What is Unicorns? Live stream your iPhone screen. Live stream your iPhone or iPad screen. Produced by Lookback.
Puma and Unicorns are primarily classified as "Web Servers" and "Device Streaming" tools respectively.
Puma is an open source tool with 5.79K GitHub stars and 989 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Puma's open source repository on GitHub.
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- Free4
- Convenient3
- Easy3
- Multithreaded2
- Consumes less memory than Unicorn2
- Default Rails server2
- First-class support for WebSockets2
- Lightweight1
- Fast1
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- Uses `select` (limited client count)0
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What is Puma?
Unlike other Ruby Webservers, Puma was built for speed and parallelism. Puma is a small library that provides a very fast and concurrent HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby web applications.
What is Unicorns?
Live stream your iPhone or iPad screen. Produced by Lookback.
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