What is the purpose of using nginx with gunicorn?
Gunicorn is an application server for running your python application instance.
NGINX is a reverse proxy. It accepts incoming connections and decides where they should go next. It is in front of Gunicorn.
I want to use gunicorn for a REST API application with Flask/Python. What is the purpose of adding nginx here to gunicorn? The gunicorn site recommends using gunicorn with nginx.