Monday, October 12, 2009

I like Unicorn because it's Unix
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Tags: http, ruby, server, unicorn
Unicorn is a "mostly pure-Ruby HTTP backend" using's Mongrel's HTTP parser but using a Unix prefork model to service requests. Interesting piece on how the Unix layer can doing the heavy lifting, via syscalls from Ruby.