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Yep...and if you use it for that it's brilliant.

My latest project runs Python/Pyramid and MongoDB for the more traditional computational stuff. We have a notification architecture running through node.js/socket.io sending real-time events down to the browser.

It works beautifully.

All of that COULD have been implemented within the Pyramid layer (or Twisted..or whatever), but it would have been much more difficult and time-consuming to do.

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I'm doing something similar, only with PHP + MySQL for the more traditional stuff. Node.js runs a websocket server + http + fastcgi. Browsers connect as clients. PHP connects as a client too when it needs to. Node.js facilitates the back and forth.

I could have done it in PHP, but it would have been an absolute nightmare.

You can run pyramid through gevent wsgi and use gevent-websockets to get the same functionality. Highly performant, no callback soup, and all one stack.

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