Implementing Long Polling in Spring Microservices
Introduction
The rapid adoption of microservices in recent years has necessitated a shift in the way services communicate with each other. In certain scenarios, merely relying on the traditional request-response model might not be efficient, especially when you need real-time updates without overburdening the servers with frequent requests. Long polling is a technique that bridges this gap by allowing clients to wait for a response until there’s an update or until a specified timeout occurs.
In this post, we’ll delve into how to implement long polling in Spring microservices. Spring, with its vast ecosystem, provides robust support for building microservices and, by extension, for long polling.
Introduction to Long Polling
In the ever-evolving landscape of web development, ensuring real-time or near-real-time communication between the client and server has always been a topic of interest and innovation. Long polling, one of these strategies, represents a compromise between more primitive request-response models and advanced communication methods, like WebSockets.
Origins and Evolution
The origins of long polling can be traced back to a need for overcoming the limitations of traditional…
