[Flask] Flask Deployment on Tornado
errata at gmx.com
errata at gmx.com
Tue Apr 12 13:20:47 EDT 2016
The Flask docs include this snippet for deploying a Flask app on Tornado:
http_server = HTTPServer(WSGIContainer(app))
http_server.listen(5000)
IOLoop.instance().start()
But the Tornado docs have this to say about deploying WSGI apps using
WSGIContainer:
> Warning
>
> WSGI is a/synchronous/interface, while Tornado’s concurrency model is
> based on single-threaded asynchronous execution. This means that
> running a WSGI app with Tornado’s|WSGIContainer|
> <http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/wsgi.html#tornado.wsgi.WSGIContainer>is/less
> scalable/than running the same app in a multi-threaded WSGI server
> like|gunicorn|or|uwsgi|. Use|WSGIContainer|
> <http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/wsgi.html#tornado.wsgi.WSGIContainer>only
> when there are benefits to combining Tornado and WSGI in the same
> process that outweigh the reduced scalability.
>
So, is the consensus opinion to stick with gunicorn or uwsgi for deployment?
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