[BangPypers] Friendfeed's web server framework open sourced

Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.nene at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 16:57:12 CEST 2009


I am curious about the objective .. to the best of my knowledge wsgi is
essentially blocking (unless my understanding is incorrect), whereas tornado
is primarily non-blocking. So would you see any specific advantages of
deploying a wsgi app with tornado ?

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/9/11 Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.nene at gmail.com>:
> > Friendfeed's web server framework has been open sourced.
> >
> > http://bret.appspot.com/entry/tornado-web-server
> >
> > One of the exciting things about it (that I look forward to testing it
> out)
> > is the fact that mod_wsgi never really seemed like a good gateway
> standard
> > for event driven web servers such as nginx. While I am not sure, I do
> hope
> > that this framework allows the capability to combine tornado with nginx
> to
> > achieve concurrent client support substantially in excess of what apache
> +
> > mod_wsgi can achieve and with much lesser resource utilisation.
>
> I managed to make tornado web server work with web.py applications.
>
> http://github.com/anandology/sandbox/blob/master/webtornado.py
>
> It can be used to run any wsgi app using tornado http server.
>
> Anand
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