What is the preferred production setup for eve

Question

I am setting up an Eve instance for production and wonder what is the "preferred production setup" for Eve - if there is such a thing. uWSGI seem to work nice. Gunicorn works nice with standard Flask - but not so easily for Eve as Eve has an implicit import of "settings.py". Suggestions or recommandations?

Answer 1

Tornado is pretty popular with Eve and Flask in general. 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 straightforward (source).

So imagine you have your average run.py script for launching your REST API:

from eve import Eve
app = Eve()

# custom stuff here

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run() 

You could then have a run-production.py script like this:

from tornado.wsgi import WSGIContainer
from tornado.httpserver import HTTPServer
from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop

from run import app

http_server = HTTPServer(WSGIContainer(app))
http_server.listen(5000)
IOLoop.instance().start()

You can then launch run.py when debugging, and run-production.py when going live.