October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
8h 9m
English
Content preview from Mastering Flask Web Development - Second Edition
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Nginx and uWSGI
If you need better performance or more options for customization, the most popular way to deploy a Python web application is to use a Nginx web server as a frontend for the WSGI-based uWSGI server by using a reverse proxy. A reverse proxy is a program in networks that retrieves contents for a client from a server, as if it returned from the proxy itself. This process is shown in the following diagram:
Nginx and uWSGI are used like this, because this way, we get the power of the Nginx frontend, while having the customization of uWSGI.
Nginx is a very powerful web server that became popular by providing the best combination of ...