Tornado

Also known as tornado

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.

Inception: 2009
Website: http://www.tornadoweb.org/

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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:

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Also known as tornado

Notable quotes

“When you told me you used to chase tornadoes I always thought it was a metaphor!”
— Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin, in Twister (1996).
“A single experience of this awful convulsion of the elements suffices to fasten the memory of its occurrence upon the mind with such a dreadful force that no effort can efface the remembrance of it. The destructive violence of this storm exceeds in its power, fierceness, and grandeur all other phenomena of the atmosphere.”
— John Park Finley, Tornadoes (1887)
“Scenes of suffering and horror marked the storm and fire. Throughout the night relief workers and ambulances endeavored to make their way through the streets strewn with wreckage, fallen telegraph poles and wires and burning embers. The only light afforded was that of the burning area…”
— Unnamed reporter in St. Louis Post-Dispatch (20 March 1925)

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About Tornado

About Tornado

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