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Re:WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. We... by apitman on Monday March 18, 2024 @03:54PM (#39749167)
This is one of my favorite articles along these lines:

https://blog.sequin.io/events-not-webhooks/

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Re:WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. We... by jallmann on Monday March 18, 2024 @04:36PM (#39749683)
Yeah that is a great article, and I agree that long polling an events endpoint along with a cursor gets you most of the way there for browser clients. At that point, things start to resemble the Kafka protocol.
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Re:WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. We... by nchmy on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @11:16AM (#39756615)
Great article, thanks for sharing. NATS is an excellent option along these lines, particularly with their nats.ws library

https://nats.io/

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