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16th October 2008 - Link Blog

A Million-user Comet Application with Mochiweb, Part 1. Richard Jones explores Mochiweb, Erlang and linux kernel tuning for building a high performance comet server. Does this mean real-time web features are coming to last.fm?

Posted 16th October 2008 at 2:16 pm

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