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Facebook Releases Open Source Web Server

Posted by timothy on from the what-is-this-facebook-you-speak-of dept.

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."

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  1. Irony. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't think it means what you think it means.

  2. Re:I thought.. by megrims · · Score: 4, Funny

    One language per application is old hat.

  3. Re:I posted this news :/ by Anonymous Coward · · 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

    Here, have a cookie...

  4. Re:As Bender would say by Cheesetrap · · 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>

  5. Re:That's not ironic! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mod parent up. To be ironic it would have to be like rain on your wedding day.

  6. Re:I posted this news :/ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Relax... There's life outside Slashdot.

    Heretic! Burn him!

  7. Re:As Bender would say by ari_j · · Score: 2, Funny

    This happens a lot. Blame Alanis.

  8. Re:That's not ironic! by toofast · · Score: 4, Funny

    ThankÃ(TM)s, now IÃ(TM)ll go learn the usageÃ(TM)s of the Ã(TM)apostropheÃ(TM) correctly.