Sharing Data in a Gunicorn + Flask application

Example code for sharing data in a Python WSGI HTTP Server Detailed explanation can be found here @ Medium

Setup

• Please refer to the requirements.txt

• $ pip install -r requirements.txt
  

Run

• To run the server, please refer to run.sh

• $ bash run.sh
  

• Default app configurations are:
  • --num-workers: 5
  • --port: 8080

Test

• To test the following behavior, please find the appropriate commands below.
• Global variables

  • $ bash run.sh test_global_variable
    

• Test multiprocess Value

  • $ bash run.sh test_mp_value 
    

• Test multiprocess array

  • $ bash run.sh test_mp_array 
    

• Test multiprocess manager

  • $ bash run.sh test_mp_manager 
    

• Test Signal handling

  • $ bash run.sh test_signal_handling