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Tornado (web server)

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Original author(s)
  
FriendFeed

Development status
  
Active

Developer(s)
  
Facebook, Bret Taylor

Initial release
  
2009; 8 years ago (2009)

Stable release
  
4.4.2 / October 1, 2016; 5 months ago (2016-10-01)

Repository
  
github.com/tornadoweb/tornado.git

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.

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Performance

Tornado is noted for its high performance. It tries to solve the C10k problem affecting other servers. The following table shows a benchmark test of Tornado against other Python-based servers:

Modules

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

    • References

    Tornado (web server) Wikipedia
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