You can use Pushpin in front of Django (or any web framework, whether event-driven or not) to implement realtime features. http://blog.fanout.io/2013/04/09/an-

You can use Pushpin in front of Django (or any web framework, whether event-driven or not) to implement realtime features. http://blog.fanout.io/2013/04/09/an-http-reverse-proxy-for-realtime/ http://blog.fanout.io/2013/04/09/an-http-reverse-proxy-for-r... The thesis behind this architecture is that most realtime web applications can be reduced to request/response and publish/subscribe messaging patterns. Instead of looking at Django as a legacy framework, look at it as 50% of the solution (read: request/response). Pushpin provides the rest.