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Discussion on: Grpc for web???

 
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Kasey Speakman • Edited

Yeah, the experience where I wished I had a long-poll capability was on the back-end processing events. Maintaining an open connection requires a surprising amount of coding to handle failure cases. Whereas a long poll can give you realtime-stream-like behavior in normal cases and a nice protective fallback behavior in spiky cases without worrying too much about the underlying connection. I think it is probably abnormal for web-socket users to run into throughput constrained situations where they need to protectively disconnect. It's not our normal usage pattern either, but it was a possibility I had to code for.