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What is the major difference between circus and tools like supervisor?

by samirk 13y ago

tarekmoz 13y ago
Author of Circus here. Major differences: * Circus uses ZeroMQ, Supervisor uses XML-RPC. * Circus is Python 3 compatible, Supervisor is Python 2 only * Circus will let you manage sockets - see http://circus.readthedocs.org/en/latest/for-ops/sockets/ http://circus.readthedocs.org/en/latest/for-ops/sockets/
- samirk 13y ago
  Thanks for the clarifications. Just for the record it seems that Supervisor will roll out Python 3 support soon https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor/issues/110 https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor/issues/110. It's good to have it here and now though.
  - tarekmoz 13y ago
    That's great to see Supervisor is moving forward on the Python 3 support. Scott is actually the person who ported Circus to Python 3, so double kudos for him.
- wink 13y ago
  When I last compared them, circus looked more specific to managing something like wsgi workers while supervisord looked a little more "general-purpose". This was probably a wrong or overly simplified conclusion, but I know supervisor and it hasn't let me down yet - so for now I see no compelling reason to switch. Maybe it's one of those "you just have to try it" moments? :)
  - tarekmoz 13y ago
    Supervisor is solid and mature, that's for sure. If not for the sockets feature, I would say that you would want to move to Circus if: - you need python 3 - you have a complex start/stop sequence where you need to add some custom code - you manage many servers and want to quickly jump from one to another in the same web dashboard / CLI. Otherwise, they both provide roughly the same things I'd say
mike3m 13y ago
I watched a 60 minute talk from Tarek Ziadé a few months ago in EuroPython 2013 which was very interesting. His point regarding the missing features that made them launch project Circus were realtime stdout/stderr, realtime stats, powerful web console, remote, clustering and scalable. You can check out the slides here: http://blog.ziade.org/slides/pyconireland2012/ http://blog.ziade.org/slides/pyconireland2012/

What is the major difference between circus and tools like supervisor?

by samirk 13y ago

What is the major difference between circus and tools like supervisor?

Author of Circus here. Major differences: * Circus uses ZeroMQ, Supervisor uses XML-RPC. * Circus is Python 3 compatible, Supervisor is Python 2 only * Circus will let you manage sockets - see http://circus.readthedocs.org/en/latest/for-ops/sockets/ http://circus.readthedocs.org/en/latest/for-ops/sockets/

samirk 13y ago
Thanks for the clarifications. Just for the record it seems that Supervisor will roll out Python 3 support soon https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor/issues/110 https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor/issues/110. It's good to have it here and now though.
- tarekmoz 13y ago
  That's great to see Supervisor is moving forward on the Python 3 support. Scott is actually the person who ported Circus to Python 3, so double kudos for him.
wink 13y ago
When I last compared them, circus looked more specific to managing something like wsgi workers while supervisord looked a little more "general-purpose". This was probably a wrong or overly simplified conclusion, but I know supervisor and it hasn't let me down yet - so for now I see no compelling reason to switch. Maybe it's one of those "you just have to try it" moments? :)
- tarekmoz 13y ago
  Supervisor is solid and mature, that's for sure. If not for the sockets feature, I would say that you would want to move to Circus if: - you need python 3 - you have a complex start/stop sequence where you need to add some custom code - you manage many servers and want to quickly jump from one to another in the same web dashboard / CLI. Otherwise, they both provide roughly the same things I'd say

mike3m 13y ago

I watched a 60 minute talk from Tarek Ziadé a few months ago in EuroPython 2013 which was very interesting. His point regarding the missing features that made them launch project Circus were realtime stdout/stderr, realtime stats, powerful web console, remote, clustering and scalable. You can check out the slides here: http://blog.ziade.org/slides/pyconireland2012/ http://blog.ziade.org/slides/pyconireland2012/