Gunicorn

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Gunicorn
Original author(s) Benoit Chesneau
Developer(s) Gunicorn Developers
Initial release20 February 2010;13 years ago (2010-02-20)
Stable release
21.2.0 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 19 July 2023;30 days ago (19 July 2023)
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Written in Python
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Web server
License MIT License
Website www.gunicorn.org OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Benoit Chesneau, author of Gunicorn Benoit Chesneau in 2010.jpg
Benoit Chesneau, author of Gunicorn

The Gunicorn "Green Unicorn" (pronounced jee-unicorn or gun-i-corn) [2] is a Python Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) HTTP server. It is a pre-fork worker model, ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with a number of web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resources and fairly fast. [3] It is often paired with NGINX, as the two have complementary features. [4]

Contents

Architecture

Server model [5]

Features

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References

  1. ↑ "Gunicorn 21.2.0 has been released". 19 July 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  2. ↑ "Ambiguous Pronunciation · Issue #139 · benoitc/gunicorn". GitHub. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  3. ↑ Gunicorn-Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX
  4. ↑ Gunicorn and Nginx in a Nutshell
  5. ↑ "Design — Gunicorn 20.1.0 documentation".
  6. ↑ "Gunicorn 19.3 Documentation: Requirements". Archived from the original on 2015-08-19. Retrieved 2015-07-29.

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