15 engineers on Hacker News describe using Gunicorn first-hand: 5 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“wsgi servers like gunicorn will hapilly reload the workers when it receives SIGHUP in prod”
endorse · production · BiteCode_dev · 2022-09-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we ended up falling back to a standard Gunicorn web server setup using traditional WSGI to handle regular HTTP traffic”
endorse · production · sjamaan · 2019-03-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to gunicorn and had dramatically better performance.”
endorse · production · CoffeeDregs · 2015-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it was not responding well beyond a point”
regret · production · rdrock · 2014-11-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in my experience (2 years with gunicorn, 1 with uwsgi in prod), uwsgi is more stable, uses less memory, has better management and configuration tools”
regret · production · 2 yr · rlander · 2012-05-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using gunicorn+gevent in production for a while now and it has been outstanding.”
endorse · production · stock_toaster · 2011-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I just start gunicorn, point nginx at it, and I'm ready to go.”
endorse · production · gtaylor · 2011-07-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“i think we overtuned gunicorn again”
neutral · production · hadlock · 2026-09-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Most of the coolest stuff for me is help with sysadmin and running the server. The ability to debug gunicorn errors is great.”
neutral · production · cryptoz · 2023-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We heavily use microservices but we have a well defined stack. Python/gunicorn/flask/mongodb with k8s.”
neutral · production · orochimaaru · 2023-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We only run nginx + gunicorn (gevent reactor), 1 master process + 1 worker per vCPU.”
neutral · production · jhgg · 2021-08-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I worked with a fairly complex http api app that ran as a rather svelte wsgi framework under gunicorn”
neutral · production · stock_toaster · 2015-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“gunicorn/Flask (web apps and APIs)”
neutral · production · 0.67 yr · knz · 2015-07-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've done this experimentally by subclassing gunicorn.app.base.Application. Haven't tried it out in prod yet though.”
neutral · personal · sibsibsib · 2015-04-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Well I run gunicorn in production with 4 workers so just wanted to give it a try.”
neutral · production · yashh · 2010-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?