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Passenger

A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js
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What is Passenger?

Phusion Passenger is a web server and application server, designed to be fast, robust and lightweight. It takes a lot of complexity out of deploying web apps, adds powerful enterprise-grade features that are useful in production, and makes administration much easier and less complex.
Passenger is a tool in the Web Servers category of a tech stack.
Passenger is an open source tool with 5K GitHub stars and 541 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Passenger's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Passenger?

Companies
1198 companies reportedly use Passenger in their tech stacks, including Accenture, Travel-Wallet, and GoDaddy.

Developers
200 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Passenger.

Passenger Integrations

Python, Node.js, NGINX, Apache HTTP Server, and Ruby are some of the popular tools that integrate with Passenger. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with Passenger.
Pros of Passenger
43
Nginx integration
36
Great for rails
21
Fast web server
19
Free
15
Lightweight
14
Scalable
13
Rolling restarts
10
Multithreading
9
Out-of-process architecture
6
Low-bandwidth
2
Virtually infinitely scalable
2
Deployment error resistance
2
Mass deployment
2
High-latency
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Many of its good features are only enterprise level
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Apache integration
1
Secure
1
Asynchronous I/O
1
Multiple programming language support

Passenger Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Passenger?
Puma
Unlike other Ruby Webservers, Puma was built for speed and parallelism. Puma is a small library that provides a very fast and concurrent HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby web applications.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
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Passenger's Followers
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