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Paul Buchheit: Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step. Paul promotes gzip encoding using nginx as a proxy, and mentions that FriendFeed use a “custom, epoll-based python server” as their application server. Does that mean that they’re serving their real-time comet feeds directly from Python?

# 17th April 2009, 5:19 pm / paul-buchheit, python, friendfeed, nginx, comet, epoll, gzip