Sounds like uWSGI based on the description. I wonder how it'll play along with certain environments like Kubernetes.
A properly edited book would be awesome. I would pay for it of course.
Yelp.com runs behind uwsgi, and effectively all of the python services behind it do as well. Some use more uncommon features like gevent support.
uWSGI definitely needs more concise tutorials on how to accomplish some tasks (e.g. creating Hello World with python and uWSGI, or how the uWSGI emperor works).
However I disagree with "lacking severely in the department of documentation"
Sure, it's not as easy as some other projects to dive into (e.g. Django) but IMHO the documentation is not lacking, it's just not forthcoming.
If you sit down and read through the uWSGI documentation, you'll discover a lot of very useful functionality and a reasonable description of how to utilise it.
What's lacking is the tl;dr way to bash something out quick and dirty.
https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Emperor.html - has config snippets too
Or maybe you mean detailed step by step instructions, a'la howtoforge?
Yes, this is what I meant when I said
> IMHO the documentation is not lacking, it's just not forthcoming.
Agreed. After recently testing out Python for a web dev project I was really dismayed at the fragmentation and lack of usability in the landscape of application servers. Here's hoping this might lead to some standardization.