Fast polling using C, memcached, nginx and libevent In this post I'll show you how to implement really fast polling using C and libevent, memcached and nginx. The performance of the server is over 2400 request pr. second on a not optimized Mac Book - that's 144.000 requests pr. minute. At Plurk we use polling and we have thousands of live users hammering the service with poll requests. It's beginn