February 29 - March 2, 2012
Montreal, Canada

Real time web apps using Python

While node.js gets all the glory around non-blocking real time apps, there are Python solutions too.

This talk is a demo of how to build a real time app using Python, gevent, Socket.io, redis and possibly a whole lot more. Few slides, lots of code starting from nothing to a real time web app in an hour.

For bonus points at the end, we'll show how this web app can be integrated into Mozilla's open web app infrastructure.

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Andy McKay

Mozilla

Andy is a developer at Mozilla, where he works on Django sites. He's been doing Django and Python for quite a while and likes talking for ages about how awesome they are. Before Django Andy worked on Plone and even wrote a book about it, but that's not as cool anymore.

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