{"podcast":{"title":"The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser","slug":"the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440","podcast_index_feed_id":847440,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1eb6d14/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://database.husseinnasser.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/222061/222061-1626111277047-d82a050054721.jpg","author":"Hussein Nasser","episode_count":541,"summary":"Welcome to the Backend Engineering Show podcast with your host Hussein Nasser. If you like software engineering you’ve come to the right place. I discuss all sorts of software engineering technologies and news with specific focus on the backend. All opinions are my own. Most of my content in the podcast is an audio version of videos I post on my youtube channel here http://www.youtube.com/c/HusseinNasser-software-engineering Buy me a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hnasr 🧑‍🏫 Courses I Teach https://husseinnasser.com/courses","last_synced_at":"2026-07-11T00:20:07.790472+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440"},"episode":{"title":"The genius of long polling","slug":"the-genius-of-long-polling","published_at":"2024-12-06T14:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/the-genius-of-long-polling","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/The-genius-of-long-polling-e2rgnjs","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1eb6d14/podcast/play/94968892/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2024-10-26%2F4a8f6294-7e06-f724-160d-d1caf1c9cc7b.m4a","summary":"Polling is the ability to interrogate a backend to see if a piece of information is ready. It can introduce a chatty system and as a result long polling was born. In this video I explain the beauty of this design pattern and how we can push it to its limit. 0:00 Intro 0:45 Polling 2:30 Problem with Polling 3:50 Long Polling 8:18 Timeouts 10:00 Long Polling Benefits 12:00 Make requests into Long Polling 17:36 Request Resumption 21:40 Summary","meta_description":"Polling is the ability to interrogate a backend to see if a piece of information is ready. It can introduce a chatty system and as a result long polling w…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1737,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/episodes/the-genius-of-long-polling/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/the-genius-of-long-polling.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}