Facebook announced on Thursday that it has open-sourced recently acquired FriendFeed's real-time technology. Dubbed Tornado, the company's real-time, nonblocking framework is written in Python.
"Tornado is...designed to handle thousands of simultaneous connections, making it ideal for real-time Web services," Facebook's David Recordon wrote in a blog post. "While Tornado is similar to existing Web frameworks in Python (Django, Google's Webapp, Webpy), it focuses on speed and handling large amounts of simultaneous traffic."
FriendFeed co-founder and new Facebook Director of Products Bret Taylor said in a blog post of his own that Facebook's decision to open-source Friendfeed's real-time feature was rooted in its desire to see "others building real-time Web services." It's a part of Facebook's open-source initiative.
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"Tornado is...designed to handle thousands of simultaneous connections, making it ideal for real-time Web services," Facebook's David Recordon wrote in a blog post. "While Tornado is similar to existing Web frameworks in Python (Django, Google's Webapp, Webpy), it focuses on speed and handling large amounts of simultaneous traffic."
FriendFeed co-founder and new Facebook Director of Products Bret Taylor said in a blog post of his own that Facebook's decision to open-source Friendfeed's real-time feature was rooted in its desire to see "others building real-time Web services." It's a part of Facebook's open-source initiative.
More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10349836-2.html