How do you think Granian will fare against NGINX Unit?

[winstxnhdw]

Now that NGINX Unit has support for Python ASGI frameworks, I am wondering, as the only other native web server, how does Granian compare?

I'll probably try pitting Unit against your benchmarks soon.

[gi0baro]

Now that NGINX Unit has support for Python ASGI frameworks

If I'm not mistaken, ASGI support in Nginx Unit came in late 2020.. so I won't use the word now ;)

as the only other native web server, how does Granian compare?

What do you mean by native? If by that you mean not written in Python, then ok, I guess that's a similarity.
But I won't necessarily put Nginx unit and Granian in the same bucket. For instance, Nginx unit is part of Nginx, and thus is part of a fully-featured proxy server. The amount of things you can do with nginx will always be much more than what you could do with Granian, as the latter is focused on the Python application, rather than being a generic web server which can also invoke Python.
I'd say Granian will always give you more configuration and tuning on the Python side of things than nginx unit.
On the other hand, I don't see a future where Granian will allow to serve multiple applications at once, with custom routing/rewriting capabilities.

At the end of the day, I'd say if you need a some more control on the Python side, you will need Granian, and if you need to serve multiple apps at once you can just put nginx (or envoy, caddy, etc) on top of it to manage the routing.

I'll probably try pitting Unit against your benchmarks soon.

Feel free to even open a PR to add it to the benchmark suite :)