Unicorn

We switched from Unicorn (process model) to Puma (threaded model) to decrease the memory footprint of our Rails production web server. Memory indeed dropped from 6GB to only 1GB!

We just had to decrease our worker count and increase our thread count instead. Performance (response time and throughput) remained the same, if not slightly better. We had no thread-safety errors, which was good.

Free bonus points are:

• Requests are blazing fast on our dev and staging environments!
• Puma has first-class support for WebSockets, so we know for sure that Rails ActionCable or GraphQL subscriptions will work great.
• Being on Puma makes us even more "default Rails"-compliant since it is the default Rails web server these days.

Rolling deploys are awesome! We use Unicorn to keep downtime to a minimum as we iterate quickly for our clients. Unicorn