Over the weekend, I migrated one of my Django Apps from Gunicorn to Granian. TLDR: • The migration went smoothly. • There were no visible performance gains. • I still can't set a timeout for requests. I also wrote a blog post about this:

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Migrating Gunicorn to Granian

I migrated one of my Django apps from Gunicorn to Granian yesterday. Here is how the migration went and some of my thoughts on Granian and Gunicorn.

I'll be giving a talk about Free-threaded Python at the #01 - Python Lisbon Meetup next week (Oct 2)! 🎉 Hope to see you there!

Meetup

#01 - PyLM Meetup at Técnico 🎓🐍, Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup

🚨 **The free Meetup plan limits us to 10 attendees, but we have room for more. Please join us on [Discord and RSVP there](https://discord.gg/5gZ...

The best TED Talk I've seen was about tying shoes. It's mind blowing that we are all taught the weaker form of the knot as kids and never learn that there is a stronger version.

How to tie your shoes

Terry Moore found out he'd been tying his shoes the wrong way his whole life. In the spirit of TED, he takes the stage to share a better way.

LLMs really are an amazing peace of technology. How were we ever able to live without them?

Early birthday present has arrived! 🎂

Has anybody had any luck speeding up Django tests with pytest-xdist? On a single core, the test suite takes about 67s to complete, but regardless of the number of cores I set with xdist, it doesn't finish faster than 60s. ./manage.py test --parallel can finish in less than 20s.