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Stop recommending Tornado as a WSGI server

Tornado's WSGI server is less scalable than the alternatives and only really makes sense when you have a specific need to run both WSGI apps and Tornado-native apps in the same process. This recommendation has been an ongoing source of confusion, e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26015116/making-tornado-to-serve-a-request-on-a-separate-thread.

Fixes #986.
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Ben Darnell 10 years ago
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@ -27,28 +27,6 @@ For example, to run a Flask application with 4 worker processes (``-w
.. _eventlet: http://eventlet.net/
.. _greenlet: http://greenlet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Tornado
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`Tornado`_ is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web
server and tools that power `FriendFeed`_. Because it is non-blocking and
uses epoll, it can handle thousands of simultaneous standing connections,
which means it is ideal for real-time web services. Integrating this
service with Flask is straightforward::
from tornado.wsgi import WSGIContainer
from tornado.httpserver import HTTPServer
from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop
from yourapplication import app
http_server = HTTPServer(WSGIContainer(app))
http_server.listen(5000)
IOLoop.instance().start()
.. _Tornado: http://www.tornadoweb.org/
.. _FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/
Gevent
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