Tornado (web server)

Tornado is a scalable, non-blocking web server and web application framework written in Python. It was developed for use by FriendFeed; the company was acquired by Facebook in 2009 and Tornado was open-sourced soon after.

Performance

Tornado is noted for its high performance. Its design enables handling a large number of concurrent connections (i.e., tries to solve the "C10k problem").

Modules

• An asynchronous MongoDB driver called Motor.
• CouchDB drivers called corduroy and trombi.
• Asynchronous driver for PostgreSQL wrapping psycopg called Momoko

Example

The following code shows a simple web application that displays "Hello World!" when visited:

See also

• Django (web framework)
• FastAPI
• Flask (web framework)
• Pylons project
• Web2py
• Comparison of web server software

References

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