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