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>SSE fits our needs better than WebSocket would (it is cheaper and converges faster, because it’s not duplex). We’ve seen multiple chat apps trying using WebSoc
by emilfihlman 8y ago
>SSE fits our needs better than WebSocket would (it is cheaper and converges faster, because it’s not duplex). We’ve seen multiple chat apps trying using WebSocket for push notifications and it didn’t seem power efficient.
This is just not true unless there is some serious fuckery going on with the websocket implementation. Both require full duplex communications on the transport layer.