Question

I want to build a simple app where i have different users and they make updates and all the users get the updates in real time much like facebook.

Edit:
I just want to know how to push updates to profiles of users without them reloading the page. Do i make repeated AJAX calls or is there something out there that can solve this problem for me.

Edit 2:
Here’s a presentation which helped me http://www.slideshare.net/oellegaard/implementing-real-time-web-applications-with-django

Answer 1

for real-time like interaction, one idea is to use sockets.

What I would do is write my front facing site in python/django, and have a node.js layer behind that w/ socket.io (websockets) that handles keeping all of the clients in sync.

               [DB]
               /  \
        [Django]  [node.js]
app logic -> \      / <- async updates
             [Browser]

but really this is a fairly uninformed answer based heavily on assumptions b/c you haven’t told us anything concrete about what your site needs to do.