# Tornado

Tornado is a scalable, non-blocking web server and web application framework written in Python. It was developed for use by FriendFeed; the company was acquired by Facebook in 2009 and Tornado was open-sourced soon after.

Visit the following resources to learn more:

- [@article@Tornado — Official Website](https://www.tornadoweb.org/)
- [@article@A Step-by-Step Tutorial on Python Tornado](https://phrase.com/blog/posts/tornado-web-framework-i18n/)
- [@video@Tornado Python Framework](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gJ21qzpieA)