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Puma vs XAMPP: 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 XAMPP? *A free and open-source cross-platform web server solution stack package *. It consists mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.

Puma and XAMPP can be primarily classified as "Web Servers" tools.

Puma is an open source tool with 5.83K GitHub stars and 994 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Puma's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Puma
Pros of XAMPP
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    Free
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    Convenient
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    Easy
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    Multithreaded
  • 2
    Consumes less memory than Unicorn
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    Default Rails server
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    First-class support for WebSockets
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    Lightweight
  • 1
    Fast
  • 6
    Easy set up and installation of files

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Cons of Puma
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    Uses `select` (limited client count)
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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 XAMPP?

    It consists mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.

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