title: Using etcd to manage Django settings
body: <p>Let's say that I have a Django app, and I've offloaded environment variable storage to etcd. When I deploy a new server, the app can read from etcd, write the vars into (for example) a Python file that can be conditionally loaded on the app boot. This much is acceptable.</p>
  
  <p>When the configuration changes, however, I have no way of knowing. Afaik, etcd doesn't broadcast changes. Do I need to set up a daemon that polls and then reloads my app on value changes? Should I query etcd whenever I need to use one of these parameters? How do people handle this?</p>