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Apache Superset Quick Start Guide

You're reading from  Apache Superset Quick Start Guide

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781788992244
Pages 188 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Shashank Shekhar Shashank Shekhar
Profile icon Shashank Shekhar

Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with Data Exploration 2. Configuring Superset and Using SQL Lab 3. User Authentication and Permissions 4. Visualizing Data in a Column 5. Comparing Feature Values 6. Drawing Connections between Entity Columns 7. Mapping Data That Has Location Information 8. Building Dashboards 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Web server

We can integrate Superset with many web server options, such as Gunicorn, NGINX, and Apache HTTP, depending on our runtime requirements.

Web servers handle HTTP or HTTPS requests. A Superset web server typically processes a large number of such requests to render charts. Each request generates an I/O-bound database query in Superset. This query is not CPU-bound because the query execution happens at the database level and the result is returned to Superset by the database query execution engine. Requests to a Superset web server almost always require a dynamic output and not a static resource as a response. Gunicorn is a Python WSGI HTTP server. WSGI is a Python application interface based on the Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 333 standard. It specifies how Python applications interface with a web server. Gunicorn is the recommended web server for deploying a Superset...

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