What is the best way to run Django on Tornado Web Server to have async + django admin + django orm possibilities?

Question

I would like to have django admin panel with tornado backends, which will process requests from online game. I dont know at the moment, is it a good idea to load django app in t

Answer 1

Just take this equation and solve it.

• You want to have non-blocking IO - X.
• You want to have django ORM - Y.
• You want to have django admin - Z.

Now, move point by point:

• For X - tornado is enough itself.
• For Z - django is enough itself. I don't think, you want to have thousands of administrators, that manage your site at one time.
• For Y it is harder. Django ORM is blocking itself.

Best way here - not to use Django ORM with tornado.

Second way - you can dive deeper and integrate it directly in tornado, if you are sure that it will not block whole application. Take solution from this answer.

Third way - you can convert your django application to service, that makes heavy work with ORM, and you can access this service with AsyncHTTPCLient from tornado.

Fourth way - integrate tornado web server into your django application. Actually, it will give you small performance boost.

Fifth way - use two tornado web servers. Sounds crazy, yes. Use one with Django ORM integrated, and second with AsyncHTTPClient.

I believe, that you can take best of 2 worlds.