(Python) webserver�benchmarking

Vit Listik

13.2.2020

Purpose

• How fast is my app?

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Benchmarking tool

• WRK
• Written in C
• -t threads
• -c connections
• -d duration
• -s lua scriptable
• Json output https://github.com/wg/wrk/pull/361
• Multiple paths https://github.com/tivvit/shush-benchmarks/blob/master/speed-tests/wrk/urls.lua
• Others
• Siege
• Wrk2

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Benchmarking env

• OS virtual machine
• 16 CPU
• 8 GB RAM
• Docker

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Frameworks & servers

• Python
• Flask
• Dev
• Gevent
• Uwsgi
• Apache mod_wsgi
• Twisted
• Gunicorn
• Sync, Eventlet, Mainheld, Gevent
• Tornado
• Golang
• Http
• Fasthttp

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Results

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Results

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References

• https://github.com/tivvit/shush-benchmarks
• https://github.com/the-benchmarker/web-frameworks
• https://fgimian.github.io/blog/2018/06/05/python-api-framework-benchmarks/
• https://www.appdynamics.com/blog/engineering/a-performance-analysis-of-python-wsgi-servers-part-2/
• https://klen.github.io/py-frameworks-bench/#results

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