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Ride the whirlwind!

The goal of whirlwind is to provide an easy to use python framework built on top of todays fastest tech. The whirlwind code base was originally developed as the underling web framework for the social media metrics and analytics platform http://www.trendrr.com.

Underlining technologies

• tornado web server (http://www.tornadoweb.org)

"Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed."

• mongodb (http://www.mongodb.org)

"MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, open source, document-oriented database."

• mako templates (http://www.makotemplates.org)

"Mako is a template library written in Python. It provides a familiar, non-XML syntax which compiles into Python modules for maximum performance."

Current status

Currently whirlwind is in a very nascent state. Basically we are providing a ready to use application template with a bunch of custom modules and helpers. Moving forward the goal is to provide a more flushed out installable/reusable framework with tools to generate app structure.