In my experience gevent is great, gunicorn not so much. Gevent has a built in HTTP server, it's fantastic. Just take care to avoid CPU bound or blocking code.

In my experience gevent is great, gunicorn not so much. Gevent has a built in HTTP server, it's fantastic. Just take care to avoid CPU bound or blocking code. I use PyMySQL instead of MySQLdb. If speed is a problem then use PyPy. Last summer I spent a month optimizing and updating our public facing django website, getting rid of gunicorn was a big improvement.