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Unicorn Unix Magic Tricks

I just published the blog post version of my talk Unicorn Unix Magic Tricks. It looks at how the Unicorn webserver works in great detail and explains the underlying Unix concepts which it uses to leverage the power of the operating system. It’s a really detailed (and long) blog post that shows how forking, system calls, signal handling, pipes and Unicorns master-worker architecture work.

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