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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.