14 engineers on Hacker News describe using Tornado first-hand: 4 endorse it, 2 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“I've been using Tornado for about a year now, and I'm incredibly happy with it.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · BerislavLopac · 2016-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The asyncio syntax is really nice with Tornado (don't use aiohtto, use Tornado! it's much more mature)”
endorse · production · eeZi · 2016-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Even then, Tornado is "fast enough" for us (ie. we run out of network bandwidth before we run out of CPU).”
endorse · production · dom0 · 2016-10-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have used Tornado in production and it's an awesome library/framework/server but things do get complicated when the app becomes complex.”
mixed · production · zaph0d · 2011-08-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it is a nice concise web framework with a flexible templating system that is easy to grok and get working quickly”
mixed · production · krosaen · 2010-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I love Tornado personally, but I wanted to write synchronous code.”
endorse · production · Vishnevskiy · 2010-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started playing with it and couldn't understand why it prevented me from integrating so many asynchronous tasks... built tornado on top of twisted.”
regret · personal · dlsspy · 2010-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have evaluated both Twisted and Tornado on a lot of open connections in production and they did not scale”
regret · production · amix · 2010-02-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when spez and I moved on to hipmunk we started using tornado.”
neutral · production · keysersosa · 2014-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run multiple instances of Tornado per server so it's actually fewer per Tornado process”
neutral · production · dkador · 2013-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched over to AWS (python, nginx/tornado, mongo) last year”
neutral · production · wrath · 2012-08-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My prototyping platform is essentially: tornado.web with the tornado request, response, escape, auth and locale.”
neutral · personal · 0.8 yr · nikcub · 2010-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have managed to swap in web.py, tornado and cheetah”
neutral · personal · nikcub · 2010-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“difficult to find out how to go from running Tornado apps in development to running them in production”
neutral · personal · hoop · 2010-05-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?