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The genius of long polling
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...
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The genius of long polling is an episode from The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser by Hussein Nasser. Polling is the ability to interrogate a backend to see if a piece of information is ready. It can introduce a chatty system an...
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Published Dec 6, 2024, 00:28:57 long, audio available.
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