Falcon app & Envoy <3

Testing the stack: Falcon -> Bjoern -> Envoy

Note: for new production systems, look into ASGI implementations.

Stack setup

1. Python application that implements Python's WSGI interface: Falcon framework

Docs: https://falconframework.org/

2. WSGI Server that links the Python app to the web: Bjoern

Docs: https://github.com/jonashaag/bjoern

3. Docker setup with an Envoy reverse proxy

Docs: https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs

Development

python src/main.py

Docker build

# Build
docker build -f ./deploy/Dockerfile -t falcon_app .

# Create and run app at localhost:8888/service
docker run -it -p 127.0.0.1:8888:8080 --name falcon falcon_app:latest

Benchmarks

# --> wrk -t6 -c400 -d30s http://127.0.0.1:8888
Running 30s test @ http://127.0.0.1:8888
  6 threads and 400 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency     4.91ms    2.17ms 172.02ms   99.63%
    Req/Sec     8.37k     1.34k   11.82k    65.06%
  1504576 requests in 30.10s, 203.75MB read
  Socket errors: connect 149, read 174, write 0, timeout 0
Requests/sec:  49982.86
Transfer/sec:  6.77MB