Tornado is a nice python WSGI-compliant web server developed by guys at FriendFeed. It’s primarily thought as application server for python web frameworks and according to FriendFeed benchmarks, it’s blazing fast thanks to its non-blocking connections.

UPDATE: For more performance info, James Abley pointed me to a very complete benchmark of available Python asynchronous webservers. It looks like Tornado is a real monster of concurrency.

There are already some how-to’s on the web on plugging Django web framework into Tornado webserver. A quick recap:

1. A tutorial on Tornado, Django and nginx by Jeremy Bowers.
2. How to import django framework inside a Tornado project by Lincoln Loop.
3. A snippet by lawgon.

My approach is slightly different as I wanted to run Tornado using Django management command-line interface.

Read the rest of this entry »