thats a bit of a simplification - you can definiltey use tornado as long as you've got a tornado compatible async driver. people using mongo, postgres, or anyt

thats a bit of a simplification - you can definiltey use tornado as long as you've got a tornado compatible async driver. people using mongo, postgres, or anything with an http interface are fine. Not wanting to deal with the mental overhead of callbacks, is the reason why I no longer want to use tornado