Andrew Godwin (the author of django migrations and south before that) is working on something he calls Django Channels <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;channels.readthedocs.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;channels.readthedocs.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;</a> . The aim is to bring it into core (possibly for 1.10), which will allow real time features.<p>The traditional request&#x2F;response cycle will then just become producers and consumers of a &quot;request&quot; channel.