Django, born amist the first web application revolution, is one of the most prototypical “dynamic” web frameworks. Its simplistic request-response cycle, however, does not fit well into the more recent real-time, long-running, client-heavy web applications, and is often sinfully relegated into a REST API provider. The speaker will discuss what Django’s strengths are, and see if there is a way to use Django in a way that fits into the modern web better going forward.