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 Tornado
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 `Tornado <http://www.tornadoweb.org/>`_ is a scalable, non-blocking web server and web application framework with
-a relative simple usage. Tornado is known for his high performance.
+a relative simple usage. Tornado is known for its high performance.
 It was initially developed for `friendfeed <http://friendfeed.com/>`_ , a real time chat and blog system.
 
 In the Jinja2 template engine example it is used to serve the rendered pages.