gunicorn
gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, fast clients and sleepy applications. (by benoitc)
waitress
Waitress - A WSGI server for Python 3 (by Pylons)
| gunicorn | waitress | |
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| 18 | 3 | |
| 9,878 | 1,450 | |
| - | 0.5% | |
| 8.1 | 7.3 | |
| about 1 month ago | 8 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
gunicorn
Posts with mentions or reviews of gunicorn.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-10.
- Gunicorn: 'Green Unicorn' Is a WSGI HTTP Server for Unix
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Nginx Unit – Universal web app server
I'm hoping so – gunicorn has a long-open pull request that would fix `--reuse-port`, which currently does nothing
https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/pull/2938
- SynchronousOnlyOperation from celery task using gevent execution pool on django orm
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Deploying Django when using python-socketio
However, I'm curious about the best way to deploy, specifically with regard to WSGI. I've tried using the raw eventlet WSGI server (`eventlet.wsgi.server(eventlet.listen(("", 8000)), application)`). I then start it with `python manage.py runserver`. This has worked okay, but I'm unsure about how scalable it is. It seems like the standard stack is Django + Gunicorn + NGINX. Based on `python-socketio` documentation, this should be possible. I tried django + eventlet + gunicorn, but it seems like gunicorn a) [doesn't play nice with eventlet](https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/pull/2581) and b) only supports one worker. Gevent + Gunicorn doesn't have this bug, but still only supports one worker. Also, I'm not sure how actively maintained gevent is. So I'm not sure how scalable either Gunicorn + eventlet or Gunicorn + geventlet is as a WSGI server. So I'm not sure if Gunicorn is my best bet, or if it's too limited.
- The Django ecosystem is not so good
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3 cool project ideas for Python programmers
For building your API, I recommend using the Flask library. It is very beginner-friendly, and you will be able to build a simple API in a matter of minutes! Keep in mind that, for a more serious project, you should definitely use something like gunicorn to run you API as a production server.
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Django 4.1 Released
Interesting looks like it might actually be a python bug. Somehow just changing from sys.exit(0) -> os._exit(0) apparently fixes it.
https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/pull/2820
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Serverless Templates for AWS and Python
The cool thing is that you can easily migrate your WSGI- application such as Flask, Django, or Gunicorn to AWS.
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Scope of database threads + connections + sessions
Yeah, that's kind of the impression I was getting. I stumbled across a github issue for gunicorn along these lines.
waitress
Posts with mentions or reviews of waitress.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-07.
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How to exit cleanly from flask and waitress running as a windows pywin32 service
I have spent hours reviewing and testing ways of making waitress exit cleanly (like this and this) but the best I can do so far is a kind of suicidal SIGINT which makes Windows complain "the pipe has been ended" when stopping through the Services control panel, but at least it stops :-/ I guess the pythonservice.exe which pywin32 starts, should not terminate, just the waitress treads?
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what are 3 django packages everyone should know about?
Waitress - for serving your application easily (pairs very well with Whitenoise).
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Reining in the thundering herd: Getting to 80% CPU utilization with Django
If you’re delegating your load balancing to something else further up the stack and would prefer a simpler WSGI server than Gunicorn, Waitress is worth a look: https://github.com/pylons/waitress
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gunicorn and waitress you can also consider the following projects:
Werkzeug - The comprehensive WSGI web application library.
bjoern - A screamingly fast Python 2/3 WSGI server written in C.
uwsgi - Official uWSGI docs, examples, tutorials, tips and tricks
meinheld - Meinheld is a high performance asynchronous WSGI Web Server (based on picoev)
hypercorn - Hypercorn is an ASGI and WSGI Server based on Hyper libraries and inspired by Gunicorn.
Paste - Paste is in maintenance mode. Please consider other options.
hypercorn
netius - Readable, simple and fast asynchronous non-blocking network apps