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As the web continues to evolve, asynchronous programming has become a crucial tool for building high-performance, scalable applications. Enter Tornado, a Python web framework that excels at handling asynchronous operations and real-time communication.
Whether you’re building a chat application, a data-intensive web service, or a high-traffic website, Tornado provides the tools you need to deliver lightning-fast responses to your users.
What is Tornado?
Tornado is an open-source Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. It was originally developed at FriendFeed (later acquired by Facebook) and has since gained widespread adoption in the Python community.
Tornado’s key strength lies in its non-blocking, event-driven architecture, which allows it to handle a large number of concurrent connections with minimal overhead.
Unlike traditional synchronous web frameworks, Tornado doesn’t create a new thread or process for each incoming request. Instead, it leverages Python’s coroutines and event loop to handle multiple requests concurrently within a single thread.
