http://simonwillison.net/2009-04-17T17:19:44+00:00Simon Willison2009-04-17T17:19:44+00:002009-04-17T17:19:44+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/17/paul/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/04/make-your-site-faster-and-cheaper-to.html">Paul Buchheit: Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step</a></strong></p> 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? <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/comet">comet</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/epoll">epoll</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/friendfeed">friendfeed</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gzip">gzip</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nginx">nginx</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/paul-buchheit">paul-buchheit</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a></p>