Adding concurrency to Django with Django Channels

Episode #98, published Wed, Feb 8, 2017, recorded Tue, Jan 17, 2017

One of the major areas of innovation in Python 3 is advances in async and concurrent programming. Yet, when working with any of the major web frameworks: django, flask, or pyramid, this is basically no concurrent option. That's why Andrew Godwin decided to tackle the issue on the django side with django channels.

Links from the show:

Docs: channels.readthedocs.io
Source: github.com/django/channels
Andrew on Twitter: @andrewgodwin

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Andrew Godwin

Andrew is a member of the Django core team, a Senior Software Engineer at Eventbrite, and spends far too much of his day worrying about software architecture. In the past he's worked on Django's migrations framework and South, helped scale ...

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