Gunicorn Timeout Is Not What You Think It Is
How you can get there So, you’re running your python web application using gunicorn in production, and you’re a good folk, you know that having requests without a timeout can be a bad idea. Imagine a long query loading your DB with the client already leaving your beautiful SAAS waiting for the results, whole UI becoming sluggish, yada-yada-yada. You Google stuff, likely entirely miss the documentation, and go on with some settings like --timeout 30 and call it a day. Or maybe you’ve been running a production Gunicorn set-up with a different type of worker in place, you’ve changed it, and were assuming that it’ll just keep working the way you assume it to work. ...