The Django development server [is multithreaded by default](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/django-admin/#django-admin-option---nothreading). Werkzeug is not, but you can enable it. Django-devserver should mimic the default Django behavior and pass `threading=True` to [run_simple](http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/docs/0.10/serving/#werkzeug.serving.run_simple) (unless `--nothreading` is passed to `runserver`.)