Great writeup. This shows the power of gevent+redis really succinctly. I think most importantly vs a twisted or tornado based solution this is using the vanill

Great writeup. This shows the power of gevent+redis really succinctly. I think most importantly vs a twisted or tornado based solution this is using the vanilla redis client library. As long as your datastore's client library is pure-python it JustWorks with gevent. Adding gevent-websocket and gevent-socketio to the mix gives some interesting possibilities as well.