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Comment by Multicomp

8 hours ago

Doesn't doing that just reinvent eTags on hypertext resources from the RESTful wars and XML Web Services days 20 years ago?

1. Long Poll the cursor to pull down the latest events

2. Trigger a long-poll even if in exponential backoff because they shot you a webhook saying 'eTag changed!'

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