diff --git a/docker-compose/django/start b/docker-compose/django/start
index b6c72b0c..eaec4f17 100755
--- a/docker-compose/django/start
+++ b/docker-compose/django/start
@@ -10,3 +10,8 @@ set -o nounset
 # Don't auto-migrate locally because this can cause weird issues when testing migrations
 # python manage.py migrate
 python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:5000
+
+# In production, we use gunicorn
+# This gets us close to that setting for development and testing
+# https://docs.gunicorn.org/en/stable/settings.html
+#gunicorn config.wsgi --bind 0.0.0.0:5000 --reload --log-file - --access-logfile -
diff --git a/requirements/production.in b/requirements/production.in
index 364755c9..93cca0b7 100644
--- a/requirements/production.in
+++ b/requirements/production.in
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 -r base.in
 
 # Gunicorn is the WSGI server used to run Django
-gunicorn
+# For an app where the vast majority of requests are I/O bound API requests
+# gevent may be a good choice for increased concurrency
+# https://docs.gunicorn.org/en/stable/design.html#choosing-a-worker-type
+# https://docs.gunicorn.org/en/stable/settings.html#worker-class
+gunicorn[gevent]
 
 # Database driver
 # https://www.psycopg.org/psycopg3/docs/basic/install.html
diff --git a/requirements/production.txt b/requirements/production.txt
index 26511af3..0d45060b 100644
--- a/requirements/production.txt
+++ b/requirements/production.txt
@@ -120,7 +120,11 @@ frozenlist==1.8.0
     #   aiosignal
 geoip2==5.1.0
     # via -r base.in
-gunicorn==23.0.0
+gevent==25.9.1
+    # via gunicorn
+greenlet==3.2.4
+    # via gevent
+gunicorn[gevent]==23.0.0
     # via -r production.in
 hiredis==3.3.0
     # via redis
@@ -156,9 +160,9 @@ propcache==0.4.1
     # via
     #   aiohttp
     #   yarl
-psycopg[binary,pool]==3.2.10
+psycopg[binary,pool]==3.2.11
     # via -r production.in
-psycopg-binary==3.2.10
+psycopg-binary==3.2.11
     # via psycopg
 psycopg-pool==3.2.6
     # via psycopg
@@ -185,7 +189,7 @@ requests==2.32.5
     #   django-slack
     #   geoip2
     #   stripe
-sentry-sdk==2.42.0
+sentry-sdk==2.42.1
     # via -r production.in
 six==1.17.0
     # via python-dateutil
@@ -234,3 +238,10 @@ whitenoise==6.11.0
     # via -r base.in
 yarl==1.22.0
     # via aiohttp
+zope-event==6.0
+    # via gevent
+zope-interface==8.0.1
+    # via gevent
+
+# The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
+# setuptools