Gunicorn

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The Gunicorn "Green Unicorn" 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.

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Architecture

Server Model

• Central Master Process to manage the workers
• Requests are handled by worker processes
• Components:
  • Master
  • Sync Workers
  • Async Workers
  • Tornado Workers
  • AsyncIO Workers

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Features

• Natively supports WSGI, web2py, Django and Paster
• Automatic worker process management
• Simple Python configuration
• Multiple worker configurations
• Various server hooks for extensibility
• Compatible with Python 2.6+ and Python 3.2+

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See also

• Comparison of web server software
• Comparison of application servers

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References

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External links

• Official website

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