The Gunicorn "Green Unicorn" (pronounced jee-unicorn or gun-i-corn) is a Python Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI)

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. 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. It is often paired with NGINX, as the two have complementary features.

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

Features

* Natively supports

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, web2py, Django and Paster * Automatic worker

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* Simple Python configuration * Multiple worker configurations * Various server hooks for extensibility * Compatible with Python 2.6+ and Python 3.2+Gunicorn 19.3 Documentation: Requirements
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