Pingie: HTTP:: FriendFeed Open Sources Internal Tornado Framework

HTTP:: FriendFeed Open Sources Internal Tornado Framework
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Since Facebook acquired FriendFeed last month, everyone has been wondering what's going to happen to the service and the technology behind it. Many were speculating that Facebook will incorporate some components at some point, or at least some feature. But no one really expected Facebook to open-source an important part of the technology, which is exactly what it did, by releasing Tornado, a real-time framework for Python, built to handle a massive amount of data in a short period of time. “Tornado is 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,” Da!
vid Recordon made the announcement on the Facebook blog. Originally developed by FriendFeed, the framework is used to power the real-time features of the site. With its focus on speed and throughput, it makes a perfect base to build a real-time service on top of, something that similar frameworks, though perfectly suited f...
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