Puma (web server)

Puma
Original author(s)Evan Phoenix
Initial release2011
Stable release
6.5.0[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 22 November 2024; 36 days ago (22 November 2024)
Repository
Written inRuby, C
Operating systemCross-platform
Available inEnglish
TypeWeb server
LicenseBSD 3-Clause
Websitepuma.io Edit this at Wikidata

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 Mastodon[2] and recommended by the Heroku hosting provider as a replacement for Unicorn.[3]

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

  1. ^ "Release 6.5.0". 22 November 2024. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  2. ^ Rochko, Eugen (12 April 2017). "Scaling Mastodon". Medium.com. Archived from the original on 8 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Puma is Now the Recommended Ruby Webserver". Heroku Dev Center. 23 January 2015.
  4. ^ Pavese, Tommaso (21 December 2016). "Unicorn vs Puma: Rails server benchmarks". Deliveroo.engineering.