The genius of long polling
About this episode
Polling is the ability to interrogate a backend to see if a piece of information is ready. It can introduce a chatty system and as a result long polling was born. In this video I explain the beauty of this design pattern and how we can push it to its limit.
0:00 Intro
0:45 Polling
2:30 Problem with Polling
3:50 Long Polling
8:18 Timeouts
10:00 Long Polling Benefits
12:00 Make requests into Long Polling
17:36 Request Resumption
21:40 Summary
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