At my job, we are running tornado w/ gunicorn and membase w/ haproxy to load balance (and not much else) and handling quite a bit of traffic. If I were to writ

At my job, we are running tornado w/ gunicorn and membase w/ haproxy to load balance (and not much else) and handling quite a bit of traffic. If I were to write my own from scratch I'd want to learn some erlang first ;)