For posting lots of things really fast.

bright.py

import datetime
import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web
import motor
from tornado import gen


db = motor.MotorClient().open_sync().test


class HomeHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
    @tornado.web.asynchronous
    @gen.engine
    def get(self):
        cursor = db.bright.find().sort([('_id', -1)])
        output = {
            'messages': []
        }
        while (yield cursor.fetch_next):
            output['messages'].append(cursor.next_object()["my user id"])
        self.write(output)
        self.finish()


class MainHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        db.bright.insert({'my user id': datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%s.%f')})
        self.write('')


application = tornado.web.Application([
    (r"/post-data", MainHandler),
    (r"/", HomeHandler),

], debug=True)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    application.listen(8888)
    tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()