It's not quite accurate to say it's like Django bolted to Tornado. Tornado deals with the websockets, but everything else is Django. You could easily add this

It's not quite accurate to say it's like Django bolted to Tornado. Tornado deals with the websockets, but everything else is Django. You could easily add this to an existing Django project. It's also using Django settings, etc. You are right about the potential race conditions using the self publishing model, but you don't have to use the self publishing model though, it works just as well using the routers + serializers.