It's no coincidence that cloud computing and post-PC devices became popular at the same time. But why didn't all this happen years ago when tech heavyweights were pushing thin clients?

In which I pit uWSGI against Gunicorn and stumble upon a Python stack that leaves Node.js begging for mercy.

In this latest round of performance testing, I take the Tornado web framework for a spin (heh, couldn't help myself), and also play around with Cython.

Check out these results from a round of rigorous performance testing comparing Python, PyPy and Node.js

After playing around with recent versions of PyPy and Node.js, I've discovered some things that may surprise you.