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| Attribute | Detail |
|---|---|
License | Apache-2.0 |
How you install it | PyPI package with |
Runtime requirement | Python 3.7 or above |
How you write a service | Subclass |
Batching control | Dynamic batching set per worker with |
Deployment | Official GPU base image |
Observability and shutdown | Prometheus monitoring metrics for batch size, batch duration, processing duration, remaining tasks and throughput; graceful shutdown on SIGINT or SIGTERM |
Cost basis | Apache-2.0 software you install into your own container image; what you pay for is the CPU/GPU machines and the orchestration you run it on |
Our take
The fit is clearest for a Python team that already owns GPUs and wants more work out of the same hardware. The two levers the project points at are batching and stage separation: split preprocessing and inference into CPU and GPU stages, then adjust the worker count in each stage to keep the GPU busy. Both are worker configuration rather than new serving code. If you would rather someone else run the endpoint, weigh what mosec leaves to you instead: building and operating the container image, and tuning max_batch_size and max_wait_time against your GPU memory from the metric histograms. That operational work is what buys the control.
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Where it stands out
Rust handles the web layer and task coordination with async I/O, while the user-facing interface is purely Python and framework-agnostic.
Dynamic batching aggregates requests from different users for batched inference, with two explicit knobs instead of a hidden policy.
Workers can be chained into pipelined stages for mixed CPU/GPU/IO workloads, with data passed between stages by inter-process communication and worker counts set per stage.
Cloud operation is designed in rather than added later: the project targets Kubernetes or any container orchestration system, so the warmup, shutdown and monitoring behaviour comes from the framework instead of wrapper scripts you maintain.
OpenAPI documentation is served at
/openapi/swagger/and, since v0.9.8, is generated for allWorkerimplementations withoutTypedMsgPackMixin; HTTP/2 from the client is adapted to automatically since v0.8.8.Ready-to-use examples cover multi-route serving, an OpenAI compatible embedding service, reranking, shared memory IPC, customized GPU allocation, customized metrics and compression.
Trade-offs to weigh
Tuning is your job. The docs warn that inference at
max_batch_sizemust not cause out-of-memory on the GPU, and thatmax_wait_timeshould normally be less than the batch inference time; the metric histograms of real batch size and duration are the inputs you work from.Container discipline is assumed. The service controls multiple processes, so it should be PID 1; running anything else alongside it in the same container means adding a supervisor such as Supervisor or Horust.
Multi-stage services pay a data cost: values crossing stages are serialized and deserialized, so extremely large data might make the whole pipeline slow. The docs suggest you could enable shared memory, via
RedisShmIPCMixin, to potentially reduce that latency.JSON is the default for decoding requests and encoding responses, and the docs note images and embeddings are not well supported by it; binary payloads mean inheriting
MsgpackMixinor another mixin.Without a warm-up example the first request's latency is expected to be longer, and when one is set the service is only ready after that example has been forwarded through the handler, which lengthens every start and restart.
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