First Impressions of Tornado
I created this site using Tornado because I wanted a simple site that was fast and efficient. Tornado offers just that. From request handling to template rendering it's extremely fast. The development time and learning curve was on par with something like web.py or Google's App Engine. Tornado's documentation, though not very thorough, will give you what you need to get started. For any other questions you might have, you can usually just figure it out by reading through the source code. All in all, I'm very pleased with the functionality and performance that Tornando offers. I'm really looking forward to working with it in the future.
Along with Tornado, I thought I'd try out SQLAlchemy for my ORM. I've always used Django's or App Engine's models. And as it turns out, I like SQLAlchemy very much.