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Python for Google App Engine
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Python for Google App Engine

by Massimiliano Pippi
January 2015
Intermediate to advanced
198 pages
4h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 6. Using Channels to Implement a Real-time Application

Web applications use the request/response message exchange pattern to communicate with the server. The communication flow always starts from the client (usually a web browser), initiating a request and a server that provides a response and closes the connection immediately after. This means that if we need to get information from a server as soon as they are available, our client has to actively and repeatedly request for them using a polling strategy, which is a simple but often ineffective solution. In fact, if the poll interval is short, we need to perform a lot of requests, which consumes time and bandwidth and overloads the server; on the other hand, if the poll interval is long, ...

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