Project Summary
Unicorn is a HTTP server for Rack applications designed to take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels and only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections. Slow clients should only be served by placing a reverse proxy capable of fully-buffering both the the request and response in between Unicorn and slow clients.
In a Nutshell, Unicorn...
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took an estimated 3 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in January, 2006
ending with its most recent commit 5 months ago
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