Puma (web server)
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Original author(s) | Evan Phoenix |
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Initial release | 2011 |
Stable release | 6.4.3[1]
/ 19 September 2024 |
Repository | |
Written in | Cross-platform |
Available in | English |
Type | Web server |
License | BSD 3-Clause |
Website | puma |
Puma is an HTTP web server derived from Mongrel and written by Evan Phoenix. It stresses speed and efficient use of memory.
Reception and use
Puma is the web server shipped with
Deliveroo published a benchmark comparing the two servers and concluded “Puma performs better than Unicorn in all tests that were either heavily IO-bound or that interleaved IO and CPU work”, but that Unicorn was still slightly better performing in situations where CPU load was the limiting factor.[4]
References
- ^ "Release 6.4.3". 19 September 2024. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ^ Rochko, Eugen (12 April 2017). "Scaling Mastodon". Medium.com. Archived from the original on 8 December 2018.
- ^ "Puma is Now the Recommended Ruby Webserver". Heroku Dev Center. 23 January 2015.
- ^ Pavese, Tommaso (21 December 2016). "Unicorn vs Puma: Rails server benchmarks". Deliveroo.engineering.