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NGINX Unit

A dynamic web and application server with Go, PHP, Python, Perl, and Ruby support.
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What is NGINX Unit?

NGINX Unit is a dynamic web application server, designed to run applications in multiple languages. Unit is lightweight, polyglot, and dynamically configured via API. The design of the server allows reconfiguration of specific application parameters as needed by the engineering or operations.
NGINX Unit is a tool in the Web Servers category of a tech stack.
NGINX Unit is an open source tool with 5K GitHub stars and 310 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to NGINX Unit's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses NGINX Unit?

Companies
15 companies reportedly use NGINX Unit in their tech stacks, including NGINX Amplify, Amber by inFeedo, and Volosoft.

Developers
67 developers on StackShare have stated that they use NGINX Unit.

NGINX Unit Integrations

Python, PHP, Ruby, Golang, and Perl are some of the popular tools that integrate with NGINX Unit. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with NGINX Unit.
Pros of NGINX Unit
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NGINX Unit's Features

  • Fully dynamic reconfiguration using RESTful JSON API
  • Multiple application languages and versions can run simultaneously
  • Dynamic application processes management (coming soon)
  • TLS support (coming soon)
  • TCP, HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2 routing and proxying (coming soon)

NGINX Unit Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to NGINX Unit?
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
uWSGI
The uWSGI project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services.
Gunicorn
Gunicorn is a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with various web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resources, and fairly speedy.
PHP-FPM
It is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. It includes Adaptive process spawning, Advanced process management with graceful stop/start, Emergency restart in case of accidental opcode cache destruction etc.
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NGINX Unit's Followers
194 developers follow NGINX Unit to keep up with related blogs and decisions.