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Does Quora use node.js?

3rd December 2011

My answer to Does Quora use node.js? on Quora

Quora use their own event-based Python web framework which they’ve talked about quite a bit, called LiveNode. I believe it’s based on Tornado, the open source Python evented framework/appserver that was open sourced by Facebook after they acquired FriendFeed.

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