@furion really been trying to get in touch. Is there an easier way to reach out to you? I'm looking at steemdata to be a central part of my business. Would like to discuss business and just bullshit. Concerning updates in real-time, you might want to look at ZeroMQ.
I've been planning to use RabbitMQ with Celery. I will definitely look into ZeroMQ as well.
Just in case anyone is not familiar with this detailed comparison ... ZeroMQ is like Git (essentially distributed) ... whereas RabbitMQ [one implementation of AMQP; OpenAMQ is another] is like SVN (essentially centralized).
Of course, there can certainly be very good, very practical reasons for using a centralized framework ... probably depends mostly on the audience of people involved ... it's like buying a sandwich from a vendor who's only set up to take coins, dollar bills and maybe some credit cards, ie trying to pay with bitcoin means no sandwich or something even worse such as the cops being called.
You might also want to look at the forks of ZeroMQ ... as well as CurveZMQ, protocol for secure messaging for ZeroMQ applications across the Internet which uses Daniel J. Bernstein's CurveCP security handshake as an encryption layer.
Especially noteworthy is the fork by Martin Sustrik (the main original developer responsible for the code behind ZeroMQ) who has started nanomsg as a POSIX-compliant rewrite of the ZeroMQ core library in C, rather than C++.