Tornado (web server)
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| Original author(s) | FriendFeed |
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| Developer(s) | Facebook, Bret Taylor |
| Initial release | 2009 |
| Stable release | 2.1.1 / October 4, 2011 |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | Python |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Web server |
| License | Apache licence 2.0 |
| Website | www.tornadoweb.org |
Tornado is a scalable, non-blocking web server and web application framework.[1] It was developed for use by FriendFeed; the company was acquired by Facebook in 2009 and Tornado was open-sourced soon after.[2]
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[edit] 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 servers:
| Server | Setup | Requests per Second |
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| Tornado | nginx, 4 frontends | 8213 |
| Tornado | 1 single threaded frontend | 3353 |
| Django | Apache/mod_wsgi | 2223 |
| web.py | Apache/mod_wsgi | 2066 |
| CherryPy | standalone | 785 |
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[edit] References
- ^ "Home - tornado - GitHub". GitHub. http://wiki.github.com/facebook/tornado. Retrieved 2009-09-10.
- ^ "Facebook open-sources real-time FriendFeed facet". CNet. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10349836-2.html. Retrieved 2009-09-10.
- ^ "Tornado: Facebook's Real-Time Web Framework for Python". Facebook. http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=301. Retrieved 2009-09-10.
