Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

Understanding strategies for deploying Tornado APIs to the cloud

Tornado supplies its own HTTP server, and therefore it can run without a WSGI container. However, some cloud providers, such as Google App Engine, only enable the running of Tornado in a WSGI-only environment. When Tornado runs in a WSGI-only environment, it doesn't support asynchronous operations. Hence, we must take into account this important limitation when selecting our cloud platform for Tornado.

We must make sure that the API runs under HTTPS in production environments. In addition, we have to make sure we add some authentication and throttling policies. Our Tornado sample is a simple RESTful API that provides some features we can use as a baseline to generate a more ...