Original author(s) Development status Active | ||
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:
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