How to use Tornado work with Django? Is it a good solution?
django, instagram, tornado
Solution
You can use the WSGI container on top of Tornado to host any WSGI application, including Django, however, when you do that the WSGI application is still running as a blocking application and will not magically be running as an asynchronous application. So, when Django is handling a request there is no ability to handle another request at the same time within Django. The solution at that point is not much different to running a single threaded WSGI server and you would need to have multiple Tornado instances to handle concurrent requests.
So all really depends on what you mean by asynchronous. You certainly can't make use of Tornado's direct asynchronous programming API in Django. Thus there isn't really any great benefit from using Tornado with Django via the WSGI interface.
Problem
I've a huge django project and have to use Instagram API and its subscriptions model to work. For the subscriptions, my server has to be very responsive and be ready to work asynchronously to set up a hook so as to receive notifications once the user posts. Or that's what the documentation suggests. Now will it be a good thing to use Tornado there? Just for that small part or can I do it using Django in an effective way? if so, how?