You're right which is where I ended the conversation. Ideally, you should be able to poll because it is resilient. The challenge however is when you separate t

You're right which is where I ended the conversation. Ideally, you should be able to poll because it is resilient. The challenge however is when you separate the initial poll/pull from the update stream because now you have to maintain two code paths. What I'm proposing is that the poll and update stream use the same data format using patching.