Building asynchronous network applications with Tornado

In this section, you will learn about building asynchronous network applications with the Tornado framework.

Introducing Tornado

The traditional model for creating applications such as web servers that support several clients concurrently is based on a multithread system in which a new thread is created for each client that connects to the service. This results in a fairly high consumption of system resources and performance problems, which can be quite serious.

Tornado is a module written in Python that allows you to create asynchronous and non-blocking systems for network operations, where each request executed by a client can be asynchronous. The way in which the library...