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Uvicorn vs Caddy: What are the differences?

What is Uvicorn? The lightning-fast ASGI server. It is a lightning-fast ASGI server, built on uvloop and httptools Until recently Python has lacked a minimal low-level server/application interface for asyncio frameworks. The ASGI specification fills this gap, and means we're now able to start building a common set of tooling usable across all asyncio frameworks..

What is Caddy? The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS. Caddy 2 is a powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS written in Go.

Uvicorn and Caddy can be primarily classified as "Web Servers" tools.

Some of the features offered by Uvicorn are:

ASGI server implementation
Supports HTTP/1.1 and WebSockets
Support for HTTP/2 is planned

On the other hand, Caddy provides the following key features:

Static file server
Reverse proxy
Load balancing

Uvicorn and Caddy are both open source tools. It seems that Caddy with 29.6K GitHub stars and 2.43K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Uvicorn with 2.94K GitHub stars and 214 GitHub forks.

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What is Caddy?

Caddy 2 is a powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS written in Go.

What is Uvicorn?

It is a lightning-fast ASGI server, built on uvloop and httptools. Until recently Python has lacked a minimal low-level server/application interface for asyncio frameworks. The ASGI specification fills this gap, and means we're now able to start building a common set of tooling usable across all asyncio frameworks.

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What are some alternatives to Caddy and Uvicorn?

NGINX

nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.

Traefik

A modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy. Traefik integrates with your existing infrastructure components and configures itself automatically and dynamically.

HAProxy

HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Envoy

Originally built at Lyft, Envoy is a high performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services and applications, as well as a communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large microservice “service mesh” architectures.

Apache HTTP Server

The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.

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