Choosing and deploying a comet server

Question

I want to push data to the browser over HTTP without killing my django/python application.

I decided to use a comet server, to proxy requests between my application

Answer 1

One option is Netty, client-server socket framework based on Java NIO from JBoss. For a comparison and discussion see here. It reportedly handles 100000 simultaneous open connections on a quad-core server.