We have open sourced our web server. Download it at http://www.tornadoweb.org/. Check out the Facebook announcement at http://developers.facebook.com/news... - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

See a live chat demo: http://chan.friendfeed.com:8888/ - Casey Muller

Wow! Thanks so much, Bret and co! - Doug Beeferman

this was very interesting; good job - RAPatton

neat - anna sauce

I wonder what the engineering decision was to not use a WSGI interface. - mikepk

mikepk: it supports WSGI, but it is not WSGI by default because WSGI does not support non-blocking I/O for things like hanging connections. See http://www.tornadoweb.org/documen.... - Bret Taylor

This actually is a very good piece of code! Thanks folks! - directeur

cool, Bret, thanks :) I was just heading through the docs now. - mikepk

Thanks for doing this, Bret! That's some pretty cool stuff. - Keith Bourgoin

oh man, this is so awesome, thanks guys! - Charles Ying

Is "tonado" a typo? - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

I'm hacking my own python web framework at the moment, so now the choice on whether I want to switch gears to this or not. I'm liking what I see so far. - mikepk

Bruce: Yes - Casey Muller

Wow.. Thanks!! pretty much makes my day.. which is scary in it's own rite. - Chris Myles

Great news! Cheers to the FF team! - Egon Willighagen

Nice new title Brett.."Facebook Director of Products".. a good sign of things to come! - Chris Myles

very very glad to hear this bit: "Tornado is a core piece of infrastructure that powers FriendFeed's real-time functionality, which we plan to actively maintain." - Chris Heath

Great work - James Myatt

Franz: enables widespread adoption which leads to greater influence of the technique - Mike Chelen

So excited this is out. So many personal projects I have been wanting to build with it :) - Bret Taylor

Fantastic, Bret (and team)! - Micah

A very good project!...you know if will be possibile to use Tornado with other technogies except Python (such as JEE, Ruby On Rails, etc.)? - Nicola Junior Vitto

Cristo: we tried to use the official Python coding conventions, though we may have inadvertently strayed. Those conventions are: ClassNames, method_names, variable_names - Bret Taylor

Brilliant! I hope you can provide very valuable input for the next round of #python WSGI, which desperately needs a next round ;) - Uche Ogbuji

Re: WSGI needing help, see http://www.b-list.org/weblog... - Uche Ogbuji

grt - Xitong Liu

Onur, worked for me - and still works now - Chris Heath

Very cool, in case someone needs a high-end Web Server for a project, FriendFeed just open-sourced theirs, & apparently, it screams.. - Alex Schleber

Nicola: there is a Ruby example - http://gist.github.com/184760 - Mike Chelen

thx Mike, but this is a kind of eventmachine (that sounds good) for Ruby, not a Tornado client or wrapper...isn't it? - Nicola Junior Vitto

Excellent! Thank you. Was eagerly waiting for the day to come after looking this just 1 month ago; "changeset: 5afb8a445cad / date: 2009-08-11 16:34:48 / description: Initial open source packages" http://changelog.friendfeed.com/2009... - NaHi from m.ctor.org

Good catch, NaHi. :) - Micah

Thanks guys. Really appriciated. - Roberto Bonini from iPhone

That's great. thanks Bret :-) - Nimaa

Nice job on the non-blocking stuff Bret! - Mitchell Tsai

"We have open sourced our web server" @bret took over a year but is worth the wait. thx for the follow through ~ http://bret.appspot.com/entry... - Peter Renshaw

Ohhh, ummm, btw, your underhanded behind the scenes sell out still rankles my human decency, & a lot of others too, as should yours...thumbs down/dislike x 47.5 million dollars, however not being bitter of course, keep ignorance & bliss - sofarsoShawn

that's the sound of I believe 100000000? or so hands clapping...& giving you the BOOOO-URNS if I'm not mistaken... - sofarsoShawn

oh you sonsabitchez this fscking rules! why so badass, ff? thank. you. :) - mike

So, can we say; Python is the future? - Özkan Altuner

Nice code. Started to look at it today. Thanks for doing this. Now to start testing this on some projects I had been working on. - Altan Khendup

Diego: we run on Linux. - Bret Taylor from email

@bret just out of curiosity - what would necessitate usage of such an engine for a *personal* project? :) - Michael Bravo

Michael: it is a nice framework to use for any project in my opinion (though I am clearly biased). If you are doing anything real-time like the chat demo, something like Tornado is certainly necessary/useful regardless of the size of the project. - Bret Taylor from email

@bret and for little-sized hardware? should have try it on Maemo based :))) - A. T.

@silpol I kinda fail to see Maemo devices being used for servers (unless it's some kind of satellite-based or other covert server maybe :) ) - Michael Bravo from IM

@mbravo you never know... there are some unusual (and cool) apps for web servers, granted you abstain (on purpose) from classical models, e.g.server farm somewhere there and herds of clients connecting to it... - A. T.

I think this is the best answer for the ultimate question: "Does python needs yet another web framework?" While most of us would say why, when one come across this, a real world proven technology, serving zillions of pages a day, one would say, well, why not. actually, why not even take it an try to integrate out next web app with it? great job! seems like joining FB won't do you any harm ;-) - Tzury Bar Yochay

We've seen tornado vs twisted, how about tornado vs rails? http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Tzury Bar Yochay

http://chan.friendfeed.com:8888/ It doesn't work. I'd like to see chat.js :) - Анатолий Шарифулин

FriendFeed's web server, open sourced? This is great! Welcoome, Tornado! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Bret: how do you proxy long-living connections through nginx? Vanilla nginx buffers everything. - Alex Kapranoff

nginx has a configuration option to turn off buffering. - Tristan Seligmann