I don't see nothing wrong with separate asynchronous server which handles real-time for your Django site.
When event generated by user happens on your site - you just handle it in a traditional manner i.e. - POST via AJAX, validate, save if necessary and then publish into asynchronous server which broadcasts event to all connected clients. In this way you have a graceful fallback in case of async server downtime, so your user doesn't even notice something went wrong. You are not mixing things which were not developed to be mixed. In this case you are just writing your site as usual and then add real-time elements where necessary.
Using Gevent together with Django seems like monkey patching entire web site to me.
I really respect the work of guys developing uWSGI. But at moment it does not seem to be usable in a simple obvious way. Maybe in future their real-time support will become mature and convenient enough.
Of course, Meteor and Derby like approach is another level of problem solution. But in context of Django I don't think we should consider them as examples. We use python, not javascript - we have no native solution for browser environment and I personally think we do not even need it.
When event generated by user happens on your site - you just handle it in a traditional manner i.e. - POST via AJAX, validate, save if necessary and then publish into asynchronous server which broadcasts event to all connected clients. In this way you have a graceful fallback in case of async server downtime, so your user doesn't even notice something went wrong. You are not mixing things which were not developed to be mixed. In this case you are just writing your site as usual and then add real-time elements where necessary.
Using Gevent together with Django seems like monkey patching entire web site to me.
I really respect the work of guys developing uWSGI. But at moment it does not seem to be usable in a simple obvious way. Maybe in future their real-time support will become mature and convenient enough.
Of course, Meteor and Derby like approach is another level of problem solution. But in context of Django I don't think we should consider them as examples. We use python, not javascript - we have no native solution for browser environment and I personally think we do not even need it.