From 36071ca1f42a26ef327e9d14e4909a8c92cd4fae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Justin Quick Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:55:48 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] added in example tornado and gevent usage for flask integration --- docs/deploying.rst | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/deploying.rst b/docs/deploying.rst index ea812c17..7045e51e 100644 --- a/docs/deploying.rst +++ b/docs/deploying.rst @@ -223,6 +223,44 @@ For more information consult the `mod_wsgi wiki`_. .. _mod_wsgi wiki: http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ + +Tornado +-------- + +`Tornado`_ is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power `FriendFeed`_. +Because it is non-blocking and uses epoll, it can handle thousands of simultaneous standing connections, which means it is ideal for real-time web services. +Integrating this service with Flask is a trivial task:: + + + from tornado.wsgi import WSGIContainer + from tornado.httpserver import HTTPServer + from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop + from yourapplication import app + + http_server = HTTPServer(WSGIContainer(app)) + http_server.listen(5000) + IOLoop.instance().start() + + +.. _Tornado: http://www.tornadoweb.org/ +.. _FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/ + + +Gevent +------- + +`Gevent`_ is a coroutine-based Python networking library that uses `greenlet`_ to provide a high-level synchronous API on top of `libevent`_ event loop:: + + from gevent.wsgi import WSGIServer + from yourapplication import app + + http_server = WSGIServer(('', 5000), app) + http_server.serve_forever() + +.. _Gevent: http://www.gevent.org/ +.. _greenlet: http://codespeak.net/py/0.9.2/greenlet.html +.. _libevent: http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ + CGI --- @@ -265,3 +303,4 @@ In Apache for example you can put a like like this into the config: ScriptName /app /path/to/the/application.cgi For more information consult the documentation of your webserver. +