I gave a talk on deploying Python WSGI apps behind nginx at the Portland Python User Group meeting on January 11th and finally got around to publishing the slides: schmingx.
I should mention Jason Kirtland informed me after the meeting that FastCGI supports persistent connections (and a host of other features) between a load balancer and backend app servers.
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