Scott Burns will introduce Channels, an exciting line of work in the Django community. The WSGI specification has take python web frameworks a very long ways since it was introduced in 2003. We have a variety of frameworks and web servers that can serve said frameworks. However the web has evolved since 2003, notably with the introduction of Websockets. WSGI cannot handle the communication model provided by Websockets and much work and thought has gone into how python web frameworks will continue to evolve and provide these features to application developers.
Channels is one such attempt at rewriting some of Django's innards to be more amenable to different client-server communication models. In this talk Scott will briefly cover WSGI, how Django implements it currently, what Channels aims to do and demo a simple site built on Channels.