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More about Django · Module 14 - Leaving the PaaS: deploying to your own server

14.4 Gunicorn and Uvicorn

22 min
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What we cover

  • Why runserver is not for production
  • Gunicorn workers, threads and timeouts
  • Uvicorn workers for ASGI applications
  • systemd units and automatic restarts
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After this lesson you will

  • Serve Django with a real application server
  • Pick a sensible worker configuration

Module 14

14.1PaaS versus your own server 14.2From SQLite to PostgreSQL 14.3Dockerising the project 14.4Gunicorn and Uvicorn 14.5Nginx and Let's Encrypt 14.6Static and media in production 14.7Logging, error tracking and backups 14.8Automated deployment