13 engineers on Hacker News describe using Unicorn first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We could only run 4 unicorn workers on a single dyno. But with Puma we run 16 threads with ease.”
regret · production · enoptix · 2013-08-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“switch from the stock 'thin' web server to 'unicorn' or similar web server.”
endorse · production · aculver · 2013-05-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“because we migrated from Unicorn and are still worrying about thread-safety.”
neutral · production · pqdbr · 2021-01-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we can't measure Unicorn timings with Prometheus since it is multi-process.”
neutral · production · sytse · 2017-03-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've replaced our Rails API with 64 unicorns to just 1 Kemal process”
neutral · production · sdogruyol · 2016-08-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run both nginx and unicorn through daemontools.”
neutral · production · scurvy · 2015-06-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using god to manage unicorn and delayed_job/resque processes in recent years.”
neutral · production · pjungwir · 2015-06-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I failed to copy over my custom listen lines in unicorn for a non-standard port.”
neutral · personal · actionscripted · 2013-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There was unicorn and then it was replaced by puma and now it is replaced once again by unicorn.”
neutral · production · andmarios · 2013-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Similar to how we'd run Unicorn, for example. Any benefits doing that versus just running Unicorn?”
neutral · production · cmer · 2013-07-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the feedback we got was that Unicorn performed better so we switched to that.”
neutral · personal · krg · 2013-05-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run this command every minute via cron ... It will gracefully kill 2 most memory-consuming unicorn workers”
neutral · production · eminh · 2013-02-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The first iteration of our storefront was built using a 31 line chef recipe, rails, spree, nginx, unicorn, and postgresql.”
neutral · production · jsul · 2012-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?