We’ve covered only the bare essentials of MongoDB here—just enough to implement the example web applications in this chapter. If you’re interested in learning more about PyMongo and MongoDB in general, the PyMongo tutorial (http://api.mongodb.org/python/2.0.1/tutorial.html) and the MongoDB tutorial (http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Tutorial) are good places to start.
If you’re interested in making MongoDB applications with Tornado that perform well at scale, you’ll want to familiarize yourself with asyncmongo (https://github.com/bitly/asyncmongo), a PyMongo-like library for performing MongoDB requests asynchronously. We’ll discuss what asynchronous requests are, and why they’re good for scalable web applications, in Chapter 5.
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