[Web-SIG] Asynchronous architectures, abstract and concrete.

[Jp Calderone]

Alan Kennedy wrote:
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> 3. Welsh's architecture discusses isolation of multiple IO subsystems 
> into different thread groups. For example, there could be a thread group 
> holding a pool of (blocking) database connections, which would be the 
> appropriate "width" to process as many requests as can be concurrently 
> supported by the RDBMS. Since there are blocking sockets/pipes/fifos 
> between the application and the database, such database operations also 
> count as a form of IO, which has to be managed. It could potentially be 
> managed in an asynchronous fashion. Do any of the cpython frameworks 
> support an asynchronous database API?

   Yes, http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/howto/enterprise

   Jp