[neurostimulant]

Surprisingly php these days is actually pretty fast even on forking webserver such as apache. This annoy me to no end because I prefer to use python and django and it can't match php performance on apache even though it handles http requests directly.

[mtberatwork]

Are you using mod_python with Apache? If so, mod_wsgi is what you should be using for Apache + Django applications. mod_wsgi is fantastic and I see no issues with performance matching similar PHP setups via PHP-FPM.

[neurostimulant]

I'm using gunicorn or uvicorn depending on the projects. Doesn't matter which wsgi server I used, the baseline performance level stay the same. For example, a simple django rest api endpoint with nested serializers took 45ms to render, which is similar to the time it take for freshly installed wordpress running on apache/php7.4 (docker) to render the homepage the same test server. All the rest api endpoint did was serializing values from database entries to json, yet it took the same time as a default installation of wordpress to render. Yes, django rest framework serializer is slow and maybe I should use something else, but if cpython is faster maybe there won't be a need to replace the serializer just for a performance issue.