Episode 3: tornado, node.js and websockets

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English - February 20, 2010 06:14 - 14.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
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Previous Episode: Episode 2: A brief introduction to NoSQL databases

Next Episode: Episode 4: Humans Only

A quick overview of a few interesting new web technologies: tornado, node.js and WebSockets. Listen and enjoy!
As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts and dreams and deepest desires.
If you want to learn more, check out these links:

Tornado homepage
node.js web page.
Using Django on top of a Tornado web server.
Ryan Dahl’s livejournal page (the webcomic seems to [...]

A quick overview of a few interesting new web technologies: tornado, node.js and WebSockets. Listen and enjoy!

As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts and dreams and deepest desires.

If you want to learn more, check out these links:

Tornado homepage
node.js web page.
Using Django on top of a Tornado web server.
Ryan Dahl’s livejournal page (the webcomic seems to be gone though!)
C10K problem – why webservers need to handle 10,000 concurrent clients and move to event-based IO.
WebSockets JavaScript API, wire protocol, in node.js, in Tornado.
A nice explanation of long polling and other workarounds