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uWSGI vs Waitress: What are the differences?
What is uWSGI? uWSGI application server container. The uWSGI project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services.
What is Waitress? *A production-quality pure-Python WSGI server *. It is meant to be a production-quality pure-Python WSGI server with very acceptable performance. It has no dependencies except ones which live in the Python standard library. It runs on CPython on Unix and Windows under Python 2.7+ and Python 3.4+. It is also known to run on PyPy 1.6.0 on UNIX.
uWSGI and Waitress belong to "Web Server Interface" category of the tech stack.
uWSGI and Waitress are both open source tools. uWSGI with 2.53K GitHub stars and 549 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Waitress with 605 GitHub stars and 91 GitHub forks.
Pros of uWSGI
- Faster6
- Simple4
- Powerful2