I&#x27;m a big fan of the design of pushpin - it&#x27;s a really elegant solution for adding real-time features to frameworks like Django. I don&#x27;t think it feels like a band-aid at all: for most web programming tasks, I&#x27;d much rather think in terms of a standard request&#x2F;response cycle - it makes scaling with a shared-nothing architecture much easier to reason about.