This website uses cookies
We use cookies to continuously improve your experience on our site. More info.
Find and hire tech professionals
Dice backs GlossaryTech to keep it free for the community
Tornado
A 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.
| First released | 2009 |
| Developed by | FriendFeed |
| Latest stable version | 6 |
| Open-source | Yes |
| Used by | Oink, Quora |
Interesting facts
Facebook uses python web server which was originally built for friend feed. Later they acquired the Tornado web server.
