Make your Django App Production Ready

A blend approach of gunicorn and nginx to make your django app production ready.

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When deploying a Django application in a production environment, a robust web server is crucial for ensuring performance, security, and scalability.

Nginx is one of the most popular web servers for this purpose. Its lightweight, high-performance design and flexibility make it an excellent choice for serving Django applications.

Benefits of Using Nginx?

Django’s built-in development server is not designed to handle production workloads. It lacks the ability to manage multiple concurrent requests effectively, leading to potential bottlenecks. Nginx addresses these issues with its:

1. Reverse Proxy Capabilities: Nginx can act as a reverse proxy, forwarding client requests to Django’s application server (e.g., Gunicorn or uWSGI or ASGI — web sockets). This setup improves performance and ensures smooth request handling. Also, handling multiple requests at a time.
2. Load Balancing: Nginx can distribute incoming traffic across multiple application servers, enhancing scalability and fault tolerance.