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Open-source (Apache 2.0 license)

Commercial Python development opportunities

High-concurrency APIs reduce infrastructure cost

Flexible for building enterprise real-time apps

Integrates with cloud services and async ecosystems

Improved async ecosystem integration

Better tooling for WebSocket-heavy apps

Enhanced documentation and examples

Support for async standards in Python ecosystem

Performance optimizations for high-concurrency workloads

For small, synchronous applications

Rapid prototyping needing batteries-included frameworks

Teams unfamiliar with async Python

Projects relying on Django ORM or admin

Applications where real-time/async is not needed

Tornado is a Python web framework and async networking library.

Supports high-concurrency REST APIs, WebSockets, and long-polling.

Lightweight and flexible for async Python applications.

Requires understanding of async programming and minimal scaffolding.

Integrates with async libraries for databases, caching, and messaging.

Is Tornado open-source? -> Yes, Apache 2.0 license.

Can Tornado handle WebSockets? -> Yes, built-in support.

Does Tornado support async? -> Fully async with IOLoop and coroutines.

Is Tornado suitable for high-concurrency? -> Yes, designed for thousands of connections.

Does Tornado include ORM? -> No, use external async ORMs.