There is some sound information in this. I've been planning on writing about the the curve in using Tornado, as it is deceivingly simple. It does take diving into the code to really pump out a polished site.
The nice thing with it is that it makes going from 0 to a working site that covers all the basics very easy.
I've chosen some different methodologies for dealing with daemonizing and logging than Evite, but that's the nice thing about the Python standard libraries; many ways to skin that cat.
I gave this a try and couldn't get it to work as I'd expect based upon previous experience with Tornado. I'm waiting until they polish up a 0.3 release to adopt using it.
I've been working on a stub project which serves as the foundation for the tornado sites I've built: http://github.com/gmr/Tornado-Project-Stub
The nice thing with it is that it makes going from 0 to a working site that covers all the basics very easy.
I've chosen some different methodologies for dealing with daemonizing and logging than Evite, but that's the nice thing about the Python standard libraries; many ways to skin that cat.