We've been using it in production for about 6 months as the endpoint for an analytics system. We went from 5 medium EC2 app servers down to 1 micro instance in testing for our load at the time (we have an HA setup in production). Blazingly fast. Less than 100 LOC for the service.
The author of Lapis is also very responsive to PRs and bug reports.
We use Django behind gunicorn for most of the stack. Not that Django is slow (we still happily use it for 99% of our public facing system) -- it's just that OpenResty is so fast[1].
Besides the fact that OpenResty is built on C/Lua, Nginx's evented architecture makes it scale concurrently really well. We use Gunicorn in a multiprocessing configuration for the rest of the stack -- so each worker consumes much more RAM than the equivalent evented configuration.
We were toying with the idea of implementing the service with Tornado (also evented, but in Python) -- but OpenResty/Lapis has been so great for our use case that it's tough to justify the test at this point.
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We've been using it in production for about 6 months as the endpoint for an analytics system. We went from 5 medium EC2 app servers down to 1 micro instance in testing for our load at the time (we have an HA setup in production). Blazingly fast. Less than 100 LOC for the service.
The author of Lapis is also very responsive to PRs and bug reports.
What framework were you using before that required 5 medium ec2 instances? I'd really appreciate knowing what you were comparing Lapis to.
We use Django behind gunicorn for most of the stack. Not that Django is slow (we still happily use it for 99% of our public facing system) -- it's just that OpenResty is so fast[1].
Besides the fact that OpenResty is built on C/Lua, Nginx's evented architecture makes it scale concurrently really well. We use Gunicorn in a multiprocessing configuration for the rest of the stack -- so each worker consumes much more RAM than the equivalent evented configuration.
We were toying with the idea of implementing the service with Tornado (also evented, but in Python) -- but OpenResty/Lapis has been so great for our use case that it's tough to justify the test at this point.
[1] http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/