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

As always, we&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts and dreams and deepest desires.
If you want to learn more, check out these links:
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<li><a href="http://www.tornadoweb.org/">Tornado homepage</a></li>
<li><a href="http://nodejs.org">node.js</a> web page.</li>
<li><a href="http://lincolnloop.com/blog/2009/sep/15/using-django-inside-tornado-web-server/">Using Django on top of a Tornado web server</a>.</li>
<li>Ryan Dahl&#8217;s <a href="http://four.livejournal.com/">livejournal page</a> (the webcomic seems to be gone though!)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html ">C10K problem </a>&#8211; why webservers need to handle 10,000 concurrent clients and move to event-based IO.</li>
<li>WebSockets <a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/">JavaScript API</a>, <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hixie-thewebsocketprotocol-75">wire protocol</a>, <a href="http://devthought.com/blog/2009/12/nodejs-and-the-websocket-protocol/">in node.js</a>, <a href="http://bret.appspot.com/entry/web-sockets-in-tornado">in Tornado</a>.</li>
<li>A nice explanation of <a href="http://www.webdevelopmentbits.com/avoiding-long-polling">long polling</a> and other workarounds</li>
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