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Yeah I agree. But even though SSE is super easy to grok and to implement (literally just standardized long polling), lots of existing infra builds on the assumptions that connections are short lived, so many of the WS issues apply to SSE as well.

IMHO, this unfortunate assumption is not really defensible in $current_year - especially from the multi billion dollar Cloud industry. I'd much more prefer first class support for long-lived connections on an infrastructure level, as opposed to a "proprietary database-level". I don't buy the argument that it's infeasible to solve the thundering herd issues.




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