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Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and
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tools that power FriendFeed. The FriendFeed application is written using a web
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framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google's webapp, but with additional
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tools and optimizations to take advantage of the underlying non-blocking
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infrastructure.
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The framework is distinct from most mainstream web server frameworks (and
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certainly most Python frameworks) because it is non-blocking and reasonably
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fast. Because it is non-blocking and uses epoll or kqueue, it can handle
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thousands of simultaneous standing connections, which means it is ideal for
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real-time web services. We built the web server specifically to handle
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FriendFeed's real-time features - every active user of FriendFeed maintains an
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open connection to the FriendFeed servers.
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2009-10-03 05:21:14 +02:00
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2011-09-23 22:04:45 +02:00
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WWW: http://www.tornadoweb.org/
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