tornado_circus 0.0.1

circus_tornado

A tornado application implementation compatible with circus sockets.

As tornado is not WSGI complient, we cannot use chaussette to run tornado applications with circus sockets.

This project package a compatible version of tornado Application so you can easily run tornado with all circus awesomeness.

Use circus_tornado

Let’s take a simple example, the hello world:

import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web

from tornado.web import Application

class MainHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        self.write("Hello, world")

application = Application([
    (r"/", MainHandler),
])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    application.listen(8888)
    tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()

If you want to run it with circus, you can’t use socket web and fallback to launch them and let it bind its socket:

[watcher:hello]
cmd = python hello_world.py

But good news, with circus_tornado, it’s no longer true. Just import Application from circus_tornado package:

import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web

from tornado_circus import Application

class MainHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        self.write("Hello, world")

application = Application([
    (r"/", MainHandler),
])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    parse_command_line()
    application.listen(8888)
    tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()

One last requirement, you must call tornado.options.parse_command_line before calling application.listen or it will doesn’t works.

And finally the circus configuration:

[watcher:hello]
cmd = python hello_world.py --fd=$(circus.sockets.hello)
use_sockets = True

[socket:hello]
host = 127.0.0.1
port = 9000

And you’re done. You can go to http://localhost:9000 to check if it works.

You can even launch a quick benchmark and check that it holds the load:

$> boom -n 10000 -c 100 http://localhost:9000                       10:38:48
Server Software: TornadoServer/2.4.1
Running GET http://127.0.0.1:9000
    Host: localhost
Running 10000 times per 100 workers.
Starting the load [===...===] Done

-------- Errors --------

-------- Results --------
Successful calls        10000
Total time              9.3364 s
Average                 0.0656 s
Fastest                 0.0228 s
Slowest                 0.1009 s
Amplitude               0.0781 s
RPS                     1071
BSI                     Woooooo Fast

-------- Status codes --------
Code 200                10000 times.

-------- Legend --------
RPS: Request Per Second
BSI: Boom Speed Index