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by lvh 4672 days ago
I don't agree with this part:

> In other words, if everyone implemented REST Hooks, server load for both the sender and receiver could be reduced by 66x.

No, the number of requests could be reduced by a factor of 66. I'm not saying that's not impressive, I'm saying that the polling requests that ended up resulting in no action are cheaper than actionable requests, so, server load will go down by much less than a factor of 66x. The amount of work is the same, just busywork is less.

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That is a good point. What kills us the most is the latency on network IO when polling.