Tornado is a non-blocking I/O web server. In Tornado, when the request handler serves the request made by the client, the request is closed by itself. Python decorator @tornado.web.asynchronous can be used to override the default behavior (of automatically finishing the request) and keep the request open. So, its the duty of the server developer … Continue reading Tornado – Asynchronous Requests
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Python Tornado Webserver
Tornado is a open-source, fast, scalable non-blocking web server used for development of real time web services. It solves the c10k problem by using epoll library and can handle thousands of simultaneous connections. It runs as a single threaded non-blocking io loop that waits on requests (events) from users and servers them (hence also known … Continue reading Python Tornado Webserver
Intro to Mongodb
I came across MongoDB a few months ago and have taken decent strides to understand it. This post is to introduce MongoDB to the readers along with basic installation and setup steps on Ubuntu10.04. MongoDB Falls under the family of NoSQL database Unlike relational database (row/column), its a document based database Provides indexing, dynamic querying … Continue reading Intro to Mongodb