diff --git a/python/Dockerfile b/python/Dockerfile
index 212c3c53..f31d7f2c 100644
--- a/python/Dockerfile
+++ b/python/Dockerfile
@@ -7,10 +7,12 @@ WORKDIR /app
 RUN apk add --update --no-cache gcc python3-dev build-base libev-dev libffi-dev bash
 
 COPY requirements.txt /app
-RUN pip3 install -r requirements.txt
+RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
+
+ENV WSGI_FRAMEWORK GEVENT
 
 COPY *.py /app
 
 ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
-ENTRYPOINT ["python3"]
-CMD ["server.py"]
+
+CMD [ "gunicorn", "--bind=0.0.0.0:8888", "--timeout", "900", "-k", "gevent", "-w", "2", "server:app" ] 
diff --git a/python/requirements.txt b/python/requirements.txt
index 02c3a767..4066018e 100644
--- a/python/requirements.txt
+++ b/python/requirements.txt
@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
-bjoern==3.2.1
+gunicorn==20.1.0
 blinker==1.4
 certifi==2021.10.8
 chardet==4.0.0
 charset-normalizer==2.0.7
 click==8.0.3
 Flask==2.1.1
-gevent==21.12.0
-gevent-ws==2.1.0
-greenlet==1.1.2
+gevent==22.10.2
 hiredis==2.0.0
 httplib2==0.20.1
 idna==3.3
@@ -17,7 +15,6 @@ Jinja2==3.0.2
 MarkupSafe==2.0.1
 pyparsing==2.4.7
 python-dateutil==2.8.2
-redis==3.5.3
 requests==2.26.0
 sentry-sdk==1.5.10
 six==1.16.0
@@ -26,3 +23,6 @@ Werkzeug==2.0.2
 zipp==3.8.0
 zope.event==4.5.0
 zope.interface==5.4.0
+
+# libraries required by users
+boto3==1.26.156
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/python/server.py b/python/server.py
index 4485c3bc..908a81a1 100644
--- a/python/server.py
+++ b/python/server.py
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 import json
 
 from flask import Flask, request, abort
-from gevent.pywsgi import WSGIServer
-import bjoern
 import sentry_sdk
 from sentry_sdk.integrations.flask import FlaskIntegration
 
@@ -110,8 +108,14 @@ def healthz(self):
 
     def userfunc_call(self, *args):
         if self.userfunc is None:
-            self.logger.error('userfunc is None')
-            return abort(500)
+            if check_specialize_info_exists():
+                self.logger.info('Found state.json')
+                specialize_info = read_specialize_info()
+                self.userfunc = self._load_v2(specialize_info)
+                self.logger.info('Loaded user function {}'.format(specialize_info))
+            else:
+                self.logger.error('userfunc is None')
+                return abort(500)
         return self.userfunc(*args)
 
     def _load_v2(self, specialize_info):
@@ -163,39 +167,21 @@ def signal_handler(self, signalnum, frame):
         raise SignalExit(signalnum)
 
 
-def main():
-    app = FuncApp(__name__, logging.DEBUG)
-    sockets = Sockets(app)
-    register_signal_handlers(app.signal_handler)
-
-    app.add_url_rule('/specialize', 'load', app.load, methods=['POST'])
-    app.add_url_rule('/v2/specialize', 'loadv2', app.loadv2, methods=['POST'])
-    app.add_url_rule('/healthz', 'healthz', app.healthz, methods=['GET'])
-    app.add_url_rule(
-        '/',
-        'userfunc_call',
-        app.userfunc_call,
-        methods=['GET', 'POST', 'PUT', 'HEAD', 'OPTIONS', 'DELETE'])
-    sockets.add_url_rule(
-        '/',
-        'userfunc_call',
-        app.userfunc_call,
-        methods=['GET', 'POST', 'PUT', 'HEAD', 'OPTIONS', 'DELETE'])
-
-    #
-    # TODO: this starts the built-in server, which isn't the most
-    # efficient.  We should use something better.
-    #
-    if os.environ.get("WSGI_FRAMEWORK") == "GEVENT":
-        app.logger.info("Starting gevent based server")
-        from gevent_ws import WebSocketHandler
-        svc = WSGIServer(('0.0.0.0', RUNTIME_PORT),
-                         app,
-                         handler_class=WebSocketHandler)
-        svc.serve_forever()
-    else:
-        app.logger.info("Starting bjoern based server")
-        bjoern.run(app, '0.0.0.0', RUNTIME_PORT, reuse_port=True)
-
 
-main()
+app = FuncApp(__name__, logging.DEBUG)
+sockets = Sockets(app)
+register_signal_handlers(app.signal_handler)
+
+app.add_url_rule('/specialize', 'load', app.load, methods=['POST'])
+app.add_url_rule('/v2/specialize', 'loadv2', app.loadv2, methods=['POST'])
+app.add_url_rule('/healthz', 'healthz', app.healthz, methods=['GET'])
+app.add_url_rule(
+    '/',
+    'userfunc_call',
+    app.userfunc_call,
+    methods=['GET', 'POST', 'PUT', 'HEAD', 'OPTIONS', 'DELETE'])
+sockets.add_url_rule(
+    '/',
+    'userfunc_call',
+    app.userfunc_call,
+    methods=['GET', 'POST', 'PUT', 'HEAD', 'OPTIONS', 'DELETE'])