What is Tornado?
By using non-blocking network I/O, Tornado can scale to tens of thousands of open connections, making it ideal for long polling, WebSockets, and other applications that require a long-lived connection to each user.
Tornado is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.
Tornado is an open source tool with 21.8K GitHub stars and 5.5K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Tornado's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Tornado?
Companies
96 companies reportedly use Tornado in their tech stacks, including Facebook, Delivery Hero, and HENNGE K.K..
Developers
238 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Tornado.
Tornado Integrations
Python, Sentry, Bugsnag, Bokeh, and PyWebIO are some of the popular tools that integrate with Tornado. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Tornado.
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Decisions about Tornado
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Tornado in their tech stack.
Jelena Dedovic
Software Engineer · | 6 upvotes · 312.2K views
Investigating Tortoise ORM and GINO ORM...
I need to introduce some async ORM with the current stack: Tornado with asyncio loop, AIOHTTP, with PostgreSQL and MSSQL. This project revolves heavily around realtime and due to the realtime requirements, blocking during database access is not acceptable.
Considering that these ORMs are both young projects, I wondered if anybody had some experience with similar stack and these async ORMs?
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Tornado Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Tornado?
Flask
Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
