Real Time Websites with Python
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Bret Taylors blog entry with simple baseline performance comparison
A comparison of Performance for Twisted vs Tornado
A better comparison of Several Web Frameworks
I personally will want to keep an eye on uwsgi and gevent. But I don't think I have made a bad choice with Tornado for now.
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- Kevin Dwyer
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- It was interesting to see a simple example of using Tornado, but I was surprised that Twisted didn't get a mention. Twisted offers exactly the same async web services as Tornado (and has done for years), it performs well, is thoroughly tested, and actively maintained. One of the core devs has recently written an excellent series of tutorials on Twisted Web. Among other things it demonstrates how to handle deferred responses to web requests. See:
http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/web/howto/web-in-60 (the tutorial series)
http://jcalderone.livejournal.com/55680.html (a more advanced example of deferred / streaming / non-blocking response)