k732gram

Internal messenger on Django. Features: ability to get list of people who read the message. Powered by Centrifugo.

Django is designed to handle stateless requests, not stateful sockets. Instant messaging doesn’t fit into that design. We need a pub/sub service to deal with instant message notifications, and Centrifugo is the one, because it’s designed as a user-facing pub/sub server just like we need. Another options are long/short polling, but they’re not as effective.