RethinkDB + Tornado Chat Demo
Using Async RethinDB Driver , with change feeds and Longpolling. Change feeds makes
How it works
- When new chat message arrived it is inserted into
eventstable RethinkDB automatically notify to the changfeed listeners. - It makes massaging persistant and scalable.
- No need to track previous messages cursors thanks to changefeeds.
- Better maintainability vs combo of Queues and Database architectures.
Tested with rethinkdb 2.0RC1 and tornado 4.1.0 . Also included python rethinkdb drivers from latest commit for easy testing.
#Setup
easy_install install tornado==4.1.0
#Or
pip install tornado==4.1.0#Running
python rechat.py