- Caleb Kyle, Eileen Guo, Luke Oglesbee
- Yes, it is blocking. Tornado is blocking by default, so we need to wait for the db operation to finish before the Tornado loop can continue. We could resolve this by making it asynchronous.
- We are not handling HTTP errors currently. We should check for errors and provide an appropriate response. We could give a simple modal to the user or fill up a training data buffer and try connecting again later.