web development war stories from the frontlines to the backend

I learned some rather important facts about cURL’s multi interface (which makes it possible to perform asynchronous HTTP requests and what Python’s Tornado framework uses under the hood in it’s AsyncHttpClient helper). I was investigating some intermittent issues in an application at work – transient DNS issues were causing the application to become unresponsive. This [...]

I’ve been working with Python’s Tornado for about 2 months now and I love it. Tornado is a non-blocking web server written in Python. It’s structure is similar to web.py so users of that popular Python web framework will feel right at home. This is a structure that lends itself really well to developing RESTful [...]

  

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