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Tornado framework – WOW news for Python developers?

So quite a WoW news in server-side technology world (at least Python part of it) has happened. As reported by CrunchBase and other sources, Facebook open sources FriendFeed’s real-time tech as a Tornado framework. Dave Recordon, of Facebook, explains it as:
a relatively simple, non-blocking Web server framework written in Python, designed to handle thousands of simultaneous connections, making it ideal for real-time Web services. Tornado is a core piece of infrastructure that powers FriendFeed’s real-time functionality, which we plan to actively maintain. While Tornado is similar to existing Web-frameworks in Python (Django, Google’s webapp, web.py), it focuses on speed and handling large amounts of simultaneous traffic.

Let’s see how quickly and broadly web community embraces this new technology…

This entry was posted on Friday, September 11th, 2009 at 3:58 pm and is filed under Web 2.0 technologies.
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