Can Daphne run WSGI?

If that’s the case, that’s fine; you can run Daphne and a WSGI server alongside each other , and only have Daphne serve the requests you need it to (usually WebSocket and long-poll HTTP requests, as these do not fit into the WSGI model).

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What is a backend channel?

The channel backend, which is a combination of pluggable Python code and a datastore (e.g. Redis, or a shared memory segment) responsible for transporting messages . The workers, that listen on all relevant channels and run consumer code when a message is ready.

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