Customise Gunicorn for your own business

Most people know Gunicorn as a Python WSGI HTTP Server engine, but a lot ignore it can be used for more usages. With this talk you will discover how you can use it to fit your own needs/business or simply distribute extensions for it.

Most people know Gunicorn as a Python WSGI HTTP Server engine, but a lot ignore it can be used for more usages.

This talk will show you how you can use the current Gunicorn version for different usages, from embedding it in your application to extend it with your own TCP workers or logging modules. This talk will also provide a quick glance (with demo) of the new gunicorn engine, a fully featured process and sockets supervisor engine allowing more customisations.

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1. Customise Gunicorn for your own business Python Fosdem - Brussels By Benoit Chesneau
2. WSGI Server prefork-worker model share sockets between OS processes (workers) an arbiter supervises the workers gunicorn?
3. arbiter worker spawn & share sockets spawn workers, share the socket
4. inspired by Erlang
5. crash-only design an arbiter supervises the workers fail fast inspired by Erlang
6. arbiter worker notify aliveness monitor workers kill
7. elastic
8. TTIN/TTOU HUP: reload USR2: replace hooks modular
9. gunicorn is modular
10. workers logging WSGI is optional can be embedded modular
11. different concurrency strategy different platforms support not only WSGI embedded: no proxy more… workers
12. python logging estat syslog more… logging
13. gunicorn is hackable
14. Pistil Supervisor API-Hour … hackable
15. 19.2 - the needed status
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