The genius of long polling
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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