unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections.
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Rainbows! – HTTP server for sleepy Rack applications based on Unicorn
Rainbows! is an HTTP server for sleepy Rack applications. It is based on unicorn, but designed to handle applications that expect long request/response times and/or slow clients.
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yahns – Sleepy, multi-threaded, non-blocking application server for Ruby
yahns is a multi-threaded, non-blocking network application server designed for low _idle_ power consumption.
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Tarantool – fast, scalable, and reliable in-memory computing platform
Tarantool is an in-memory database and application server written in Lua and C.
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Twisted – networking engine written in Python, supporting numerous protocols
Twisted is an event-driven networking engine. Twisted is free and open source software that’s written in Python.
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uWSGI – application server container
The uWSGI project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services.
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Gunicorn – Python WSGI HTTP Server
Gunicorn ‘Green Unicorn’ is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. It’s a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby’s Unicorn project.
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Phusion Passenger – web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js
Phusion Passenger is a web server and application server, designed to be fast, robust and lightweight.
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Tntnet – web application server
Tntnet is a web application server for web applications written in C++.
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CppCMS – C++ Web Framework
CppCMS is a web development framework for performance demanding applications.
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Enduro/X – middleware platform for distributed transaction processing
Enduro/X is an enterprise middleware platform for distributed transaction processing. Built on proven APIs as X/Open group’s XATMI and XA.
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Wt – web GUI library
Wt is a C++ library for developing web applications. Wt handles all the nitty-gritty of requests and responses and client-side JavaScript.
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POCO – C++ libraries for building applications
The POCO C++ Libraries are powerful cross-platform C++ libraries for building network- and internet-based applications.
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Zope – web application server
Zope (Z Object Publishing Environment) is an object-oriented web application server written in the Python programming language.
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Tornado – Python Web Framework and Web Server
Tornado is a free and open source Python web framework, scalable web server, and asynchronous networking library.
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7 Best Free Application Servers
An application server is computer software which provides the business logic for an application program. It offers services such as management of large distributed systems, data services, load balancing, transaction support, and network security. The application server is one part of a three-tier application, consisting of a graphical interface server, an application (business logic) server, and a database / transaction server. Many application servers support the Java platform, but they can be found in other environments.
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