Circus is still pretty new and rough around the edges, so I haven't totally moved away from supervisord yet. My foray there is mostly exploratory, trying to get

Circus is still pretty new and rough around the edges, so I haven't totally moved away from supervisord yet. My foray there is mostly exploratory, trying to get used to it and its quirks before really diving into a comparison between the two. That said, the ability to manage sockets sounds very interesting, hopefully simplifying my stack even more (my current use case is in getting the most performance out of a small VPS, so removing things from the stack would hopefully clear up RAM for actual web workers). I've been running a small site using nginx->circus->chaussette->django and it's faster (and was simpler to configure) than my standard nginx->supervisord->uwsgi->django deployment. Also, supervisord isn't without its issues, and one of them is managing processes at scale (see https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor/issues/26 https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor/issues/26, that bug is 2 years in the making). Circus at least claims they intend to support thousands (via http://circus.readthedocs.org/en/0.9.2/rationale/ http://circus.readthedocs.org/en/0.9.2/rationale/) so I'd be interested in seeing what they bring to the table on that front.