Questions tagged [polling]
Polling, or polled operation, in computer science, refers to actively sampling the status of an external device by a client program as a synchronous activity. Polling is most often used in terms of input/output (I/O), and is also referred to as polled I/O or software-driven I/O. From [Wikipedia on Polling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polling_%28computer_science%29)
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Polling Application Misses 1/500 records from an OData Feed
I apologize in advance for the lack of knowledge. Please feel free to edit this question to use the appropriate terminology if it is not correct. I recently wrote a .NET core application that is ...
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Design a server file transfer to client, polling or websocket?
I'm designing a file sending system from a server to many remote clients, around 5000; each file has only one recipient client. Files rarely exceed 10MB. The server is published on the internet, the ...
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Long polling and message brokers
I was reading this article, and the author uses HTTP long polling to design a chat application. I was wondering how does this compare with a dedicated Message Broker services like Apache Kafka, or ...
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Poll based database operations with a load balanced application
I have a .NET Core application that is hosted as multiple load balanced instances (separate servers, obviously pointing to the same database). I have written a service within the application that ...
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Implementing an intranet software in which client machines get push updates from a server?
I have an existing .net server infrastructure that resides in a company's intranet. Now for a new feature I'd like normal users (employees) to receive notifications on their machines when specific ...
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Are there cases when using polling is preferable to Webhooks
When evaluating whether to use webhooks or polling for an architectural decision I've been reading some articles. Most highlight the obvious drawbacks with using polling such as: wasted resources (...
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What could be a good scalable alternative to polling data and then looping over a list of objects for triggering some action on those?
So I have some naive implementation for the following problem: We have a list of objects with action methods that have to be trigger at some value of interest. This value is polled (or is streamed) ...
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Watchlist polling API NoSql vs Sql Frequent Updates
I am making a watchlist type application that will get all items being watched and then poll an api every ten minutes or so to check on its status. I am trying to design the database portion of this ...
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