[Flask] REST based File Sharing server Implementation in Flask

[G.S.Vijay Raajaa]

Sure, Thanks for pointing out to stackoverflow. Let me try Tornado out and
see the performance of concurrent requests.

Regards,
Vijay Raajaa GS

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:31 PM, ub at artfacts.net <ub at artfacts.net> wrote:

> On 25.06.2017 19:31, G.S.Vijay Raajaa wrote:
> > The number of non-block servings will correspond to the max number of
> workers in that case? Hypothetically if one user uploads multiple files
> that keeps all the workers busy, I am blocked when rest of the users online
> trying to upload files. Any thoughts to delegate it asynchronously?
> deployment with Tornado might be interesting for you as pointed it out
> in the answer here:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18525856/flask-alternati
> ves-to-achieve-true-multi-threading?noredirect=1&lq=1
>
>
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Vijay Raajaa GS
> >
> > On 25.06.2017 18:43, G.S.Vijay Raajaa wrote:
> >
> >>/Hi UB, />//>/Thanks for the idea. I shall probe more into the same. But
> I have quick />/clarifications, even with mongo/gridfs and having the
> connectionI/O />/delegated to the database driver makes the transaction
> blocking? Kindly />/correct me if I am wrong. Is there a async way of
> handling the upload to />/mongo and keep flask serve other incoming
> request? /well, there will be workers. if you deploy your app in uwsgi or
> gunicorn,
> > you set the number of workers in you config. these will then handle
> > requests (more or less) indepently.
> > pymongo will have a connection pool to also handle multiple connections.
> [2]
> >
> >
> >>/On the same note, w.r.t mongodb-gridFS, how do you think the write
> />/performance is when compared to storing them directly on the filesystem,
> />/same w.r.t to read for serving? /i guess here's the bad news. it might
> be slower than writing directly to
> > the file system, but it might be better when you have app and storage
> > separated and need to write your files over the network. but you need to
> > consult benchmarks to be sure.
> >
> >>/I like to idea of scalability when you have file store within DB. /i
> think here's the upside. also seems, mongodb can help you to store and
> > organize 8search) file metadata. if that is a concern at all.
> >
> > [2]
> > http://api.mongodb.com/python/current/faq.html#how-does-conn
> ection-pooling-work-in-pymongo
> >
> >
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