Facebook open-sources their Tornado web server framework

Facebook open-sources their Tornado web server framework

Social networking industry giant Facebook has announced that they are now releasing a cool piece of server technology as open source.

Tornado Web server framework was originally developed for FriendFeed service which is now owned by Facebook.

The company said that they want this platform to be used widely by third party developers in their own services.

Tornado has been written in Python and it is designed to handle thousands of simultaneous connections making it suitable for services like Twitter and Facebook.

Checkout more on Tornado:

Tornado: Facebook’s Real-Time Web Framework for Python
The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed’s web server
Tornado