Walk through the basics of Tornado, the high-performance web server known for its speed, simplicity and scalability on projects large and small. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how to use Tornados acclaimed features by working with several example applications. You also get best practices for using Tornado in the real world._x000D_ _x000D_ Are you interested in creating a scalable social application, real-time analytics engine or RESTful API all with the power and simplicity of Python? This book shows you why Tornado is fantastic choice for writing powerful applications that are simple to create, extend and deploy._x000D_ _x000D_ Learn how to use Tornados lightweight and flexible templating language._x000D_ Extend templates to repurpose headers, footers, layout grids and other content._x000D_ Use persistent storage like Mongo DB to store, serve and edit dynamic content._x000D_ Explore Tornados ability to make asynchronous web requests._x000D_ Secure your application against cookie and request vulnerabilities._x000D_ Authenticate with external services, using Tornados author module._x000D_ Adopt deployment strategies that help harden your application and increase request throughput