Tornado (web server)

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Tornado
Original author(s)	FriendFeed
Developer(s)	Ben Darnell, Meta, Bret Taylor
Initial release	2009; 16 years ago (2009)
Stable release	6.5.1[1]  / 22 May 2025; 2 months ago (22 May 2025)
Repository	github.com/tornadoweb/tornado
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 written in Python.^[2] It was developed for use by FriendFeed; the company was acquired by Facebook in 2009 and Tornado was open-sourced soon after.^[3]

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").

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The following code shows a simple web application that displays "Hello World!" when visited:^[4]

import asyncio

import tornado.web

class MainHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        self.write("Hello, world")

def make_app():
    return tornado.web.Application([(r"/", MainHandler),])

async def main():
    app = make_app()
    app.listen(8888)
    await asyncio.Event().wait()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

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