Ask HN: What is your preferred Python stack for high traffic webservices?

Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred Python stack for high traf... by pjscott on Monday August 22, 2011 @03:00AM (#2911642)

They're pretty similar. The main difference is that Eventlet supports more event loops, has a messier basic architecture, is slightly slower, and lets you defer blocking tasks to threads. Since I'm connecting to MySQL, which happens through blocking C code in libmysql, that's pretty important to me. Eventlet's db_pool module is very nice.

Personally, I'm happy with eventlet and can't see why I would want to go to gevent. Does anybody using gevent want to chime in on what's better about it?

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Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred Python stack for high traf... by Continuation on Monday August 22, 2011 @10:20AM (#2912520)

gevent has utilities to turn Python blocking calls into non-blocking ones.

In your case you could switch to a pure Python MySQL driver and gevent will turn all your mySQL calls into async.

Actually there're also gevent non-blocking MySQL drivers that are written in C.

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