Introduction to Tornado: Modern Web Applications with Python

Walk through the basics of Tornado, the high-performance web server known for its speed, simplicity, and scalability on projects large and small. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how to use Tornado's acclaimed features by working with several example applications. You also get best practices for using Tornado in the real world.

Are you interested in creating a scalable social application, real-time analytics engine, or RESTful API--all with the power and simplicity of Python? This book shows you why Tornado is fantastic choice for writing powerful applications that are simple to create, extend, and deploy.

• Learn how to use Tornado's lightweight and flexible templating language
• Extend templates to repurpose headers, footers, layout grids, and other content
• Use persistent storage like MongoDB to store, serve, and edit dynamic content
• Explore Tornado's ability to make asynchronous web requests
• Secure your application against cookie and request vulnerabilities
• Authenticate with external services, using Tornado's auth module
• Adopt deployment strategies that help harden your application and increase request throughput