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0 pointsankurpatel11y ago0 comments

I agree but there is no need to poll. Polling is a poor mans solution in a world where you can have persistent connection and get push notification of when a new item is added to the queue and there is no need to throttle for 10 seconds before polling again.

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danneu11y ago

A listening pattern still has to poll on boot for unprocessed jobs.

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0 pointsankurpatel11y ago0 comments

I agree but there is no need to poll. Polling is a poor mans solution in a world where you can have persistent connection and get push notification of when a new item is added to the queue and there is no need to throttle for 10 seconds before polling again.

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danneu11y ago

A listening pattern still has to poll on boot for unprocessed jobs.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse