Monday, April 2, 2012

#Ebook Deal/Day: Introduction to Tornado - $7.99 (Save 50%)

Publisher:?O'Reilly Media

Released:?March 2012

Pages:?136

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 Tornado?s acclaimed features by working with several example applications. You also get best practices for using Tornado in the real world.

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.

  • Learn how to use Tornado?s lightweight and flexible templating language
  • Extend templates to repurpose headers, footers, layout grids, and other content
  • Use persistent storage like MongoDB to store, serve, and edit dynamic content
  • Explore Tornado?s ability to make asynchronous web requests
  • Secure your application against cookie and request vulnerabilities
  • Authenticate with external services, using Tornado?s auth module
  • Adopt deployment strategies that help harden your application and increase request throughput
  1. Chapter 1 Introduction

    1. What Is Tornado?

    2. Simple Web Services

  2. Chapter 2 Forms and Templates

    1. Simple Example: Poem Maker Pro

    2. Template Syntax

    3. Complete Example: The Alpha Munger

  3. Chapter 3 Extending Templates

    1. Blocks and Substitutions

    2. UI Modules

    3. Summing Up

  4. Chapter 4 Databases

    1. Basic MongoDB Operations with PyMongo

    2. A Simple Persistent Web Service

    3. Burt?s Books

    4. MongoDB: Next Steps

  5. Chapter 5 Asynchronous Web Services

    1. Asynchronous Web Requests

    2. Long Polling with Tornado

    3. WebSockets with Tornado

  6. Chapter 6 Writing Secure Applications

    1. Cookie Vulnerabilities

    2. Request Vulnerabilities

    3. User Authentication

    4. Summing up

  7. Chapter 7 Authenticating with External Services

    1. The Tornado auth Module

    2. Example: Sign in With Twitter

    3. Example: Facebook Authentication and the Graph API

  8. Chapter 8 Deploying Tornado

    1. Reasons for Running Multiple Tornado Instances

    2. Using Nginx as a Reverse Proxy

    3. Using Supervisor to Manage Tornado Processes

    Title:
    Introduction to Tornado
    By:
    Michael Dory, Adam Parrish, Brendan Berg
    Publisher:
    O'Reilly Media
    Formats:
    • Print
    • Ebook
    • Safari Books Online
    Print:
    March 2012
    Ebook:
    March 2012
    Pages:
    136
    Print ISBN:
    978-1-4493-0907-7
    | ISBN 10:
    1-4493-0907-0
    Ebook ISBN:
    978-1-4493-0906-0
    | ISBN 10:
    1-4493-0906-2
    1. Michael Dory

      Michael Dory has spent the last decade studying the ways people communicate, and working to make their conversations better. As the co-founder and CTO of the social technology agency Socialbomb, he?s worked with brands, agencies, and startups to build social applications and platforms that connect users with their friends, their devices, and the world around them.

      View Michael Dory's full profile page.

    2. Adam Parrish

      Adam Parrish is an artist and programmer, currently residing in Brooklyn. He has 10 years of professional programming experience, with an emphasis on programming for the Web.

      View Adam Parrish's full profile page.

    3. Brendan Berg

      Brendan Berg has over five years of professional experience developing web and mobile applications. Previously, he developed mobile applications, cloud infrastructure, and APIs as Chief Software Architect at Socialbomb. Now he?s focusing on creating software for the freelance ecosystem as the co-founder and CTO of Wurk Happy.

      View Brendan Berg's full profile page.

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