Facebook Releases Open Source Web Server 113
Dan Jones writes "Ah the irony. The week Facebook is being asked to cough up source code to satisfy an alleged patent infringement, the company releases an open source Web server. The Web server framework that Facebook will offer as open source is called Tornado, was written in the Python language and is designed for quickly processing thousands of simultaneous connections. Tornado is a core piece of infrastructure that powers FriendFeed's real-time functionality, which Facebook maintains. While Tornado is similar to existing Web-frameworks in Python, it focuses on speed and handling large amounts of simultaneous traffic."
Irony. (Score:2, Funny)
I don't think it means what you think it means [youtube.com].
Re:I thought.. (Score:5, Funny)
One language per application is old hat.
Re:I posted this news :/ (Score:5, Funny)
I posted this news first, but it seems somebody else got it on the front page :/
http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=5864125 [slashdot.org]
Here, have a cookie...
Re:As Bender would say (Score:2, Funny)
Hmm... that's odd, I don't think I could agree... Methinks Bender would say: "Hey baby, wanna help me kill all huma<character limit reached>
Re:That's not ironic! (Score:5, Funny)
Mod parent up. To be ironic it would have to be like rain on your wedding day.
Re:I posted this news :/ (Score:1, Funny)
Relax... There's life outside Slashdot.
Heretic! Burn him!
Re:As Bender would say (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's not ironic! (Score:5, Funny)
ThankÃ(TM)s, now IÃ(TM)ll go learn the usageÃ(TM)s of the Ã(TM)apostropheÃ(TM) correctly.