tornado web server
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Tornado Web Server
Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed . The FriendFeed application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google's webapp , but with additional tools and optimizations to take advantage of the underlying non-blocking infrastructure. The framework is distinct from most mainstream web server frameworks (and certainly most Python frameworks) because it is non-blocking and reasonably fast. Because it is non-blocking and uses epoll or kqueue , it can handle thousands of simultaneous standing connections, which means it is ideal for real-time web services.
Last week, at Facebook's annual f8 conference in San Francisco, we released Open Graph along with the new Facebook Timeline . Open Graph is the biggest change to Facebook's Platform since it launched in 2007. If you missed the live stream of the conference, I highly recommend you check out the keynote . At a recent Facebook Hackathon , I made a social cookbook app built on Open Graph to test all of our new products.