> There's no need to go to extremes Agreed, honestly if an argument is made and it makes sense, it doesn't matter who is on the other side. > no matter how em

> There's no need to go to extremes Agreed, honestly if an argument is made and it makes sense, it doesn't matter who is on the other side. > no matter how embarrassing and notably laughable your comment was. I wouldn't even call the original comment laughable, they had a point - if you are in control of significant parts of the overall solution, then you can most likely mitigate most of the issues. And, while not a best practice, there's nothing really preventing you from sneaking in the occasional keepalive type response in the stream of events, if you deem it necessary. The less of the infrastructure and application you control, the more likely the other issues are likely to pop up their heads. As usual, it depends on your circumstances and both the original comment and the response are valid in their own right. The "extreme" response was a bit more... I'm not sure, cringe? Oh well.