Category: Labour

I’ve had more time to work on Labour (originally posted here, inspired by this and that), the WSGI Server Durability Benchmark. I’m relatively happy with progress so far, and will probably try to ‘market’ Labour a bit shortly. Two things that are still sorely missing from Labour (and are blocking me from posting some news…

I just pushed an update to labour which supports forking multiple HTTP clients, alongside with some other small improvements. For the sake of this update I wrote a simple module called multicall which enables a process to distribute a callable among several subprocesses (POSIX only). More elegant solutions exist (‘import multiprocessing’ come to mind), but…

A few days ago I ran into an interesting post by Ian Bicking about a benchmark that Nicholas Piël ran on WSGI servers. Go ahead and read the original posts, but the the skinny is that Nicholas’ (and many others’) focus was about performance, wherein Ian (and I…) feel more attention should be given to…