<ul><li>The author, a developer, shares how he improved the speed of his Nginx + Gunicorn setup for his Django app on a CentOS 9 EC2 Server.</li><li>Initially facing a 3x speed difference between Nginx routing to the Django server versus Gunicorn, he debugged and found a misconfiguration in the binding address in Gunicorn.</li><li>The solution involved creating a Gunicorn socket service, updating Gunicorn to use the socket instead of a network address, and then updating Nginx to communicate via the Unix socket.</li><li>After restarting the services, the unnecessary network overhead was removed, resulting in a significant speed improvement with Gunicorn responding now ~3X faster.</li></ul>

I Fixed My Slow Nginx + Gunicorn Setup — Here’s How It Became 3X Faster

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