Node.js has been a well-received javascript framework know for its real-time web application functionality.

What is less known is python's ability to achieve the same with gevent-socketio, written by Jeffrey Gelens and now maintained by Alexandre Bourget and John Anderson.

In this talk, we will discuss how we can implement real-time features with this library in the context of a django application that Hui Qi, Nai and myself have developed. While we use django in general, gevent-socketio is a generic library that can be used for any python framework to achieve real-time capabilities.