The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed's web server

Today, we are open sourcing the non-blocking web server and the tools that power FriendFeed under the name Tornado Web Server. We are really excited to open source this project as a part of Facebook's open source initiative, and we hope it will be useful to others building real-time web services.

You can download Tornado at tornadoweb.org.

Read more on Brett Taylor's blog (co-founder of FriendFeed)

Comments

[Steve Yen]

Hi!

Over the weekend, my coworker, http://dustin.github.com">Dustin Sallings, re-implemented some of the lower-level bits of Tornado, using Twisted, which is his favorite, well-tested asynchronous Python infrastructure library. The upshot is you can use Tornado's higher-level web-oriented API's, but still leverage the benefits of Twisted.

See http://dustin.github.com/2009/09/12/tornado.html">Tornado on Twisted