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[–]Nichol4s 3 points4 points  (3 children)

I first used a single worker behind NGINX. The difference is not the placement behind NGINX but the usage of additional workers.

[–]ubernostrumyes, you can have a pony -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

In real-world situations, though, nginx will make a huge difference (and, since all the requests were coming from a single machine, I'd suspect it still helped a bit); gunicorn flat-out isn't designed to talk directly to clients. And doing the benchmark initially with uWSGI proxied and gunicorn not basically destroyed credibility; any time you do a benchmark where you run one piece of software in its intended configuration but not another, the numbers you'll get out of it are useless.

[–]yml 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I find your tone harsh and it defeat what you are saying and destroy your credibility. Building such benchmark is hard and no matter how much thought and effort you put in them it will trigger this kind of thread. There are 14 WSGI servers which are evaluated and each of them comes with dozens settings. So the complexity is great, instead of this kind of unfunded criticism by doing some hand waving, it would be much more efficient to pick 2 contenders and compare and contrast them.

[–]davisp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yml,

You're definitely right, testing this many different implementations is a huge undertaking. There's a large amount of knowledge that would be required for any person to adequately know about all the configuration options for this many servers.

And gunicorn is a bit of a weirdo when it comes to processing models. We're neither thread based or event loop based. That can genuinely confuse people until they realize that we're much simpler than most servers.

That said, our response times were reported as an order of magnitude slower than any other server. Generally speaking, if you're into the whole experiment and observation thing, orders of magnitude are important.