Facebook Open-Sources FriendFeed's Tornado

Facebook senior open-programs manager David Recordon announced on the social-networking site’s Facebook Developers blog that Tornado, which he described as “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,” will be open-sourced.

Facebook acquired Tornado along with its purchase of FriendFeed. Recordon pointed out that FriendFeed built its site around supporting real-time updates, which Facebook is aiming to do, as well.

Recordon wrote:

Tornado is a core piece of infrastructure that powers FriendFeed’s real-time functionality, which we plan to actively maintain.

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