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Like writing lift control software. Minutes to learn, a life time to master. But I bet you can get 95% of the benefit with a simple exponential backoff scheme.
by flir 2y ago
Like writing lift control software. Minutes to learn, a life time to master.
But I bet you can get 95% of the benefit with a simple exponential backoff scheme.
- preinheimer 2y agoI feel like polling twice a day (with the right etags) will beat exponential back offs. Exponential back off is great for a lot of problems, but irregularly updated blogs doesn’t seem like one of them.
- flir 2y agoThinking about it, it's not an easy problem to define because it's got a tradeoff. Getting the content quickly (easy: poll in a loop) vs not using server resources (easy: never poll). We have to define "better" before we can decide which solution is better.