ShortPolling

The client just asks 'anything new?' on a fixed interval — the simplest possible approach, at the cost of latency (up to one interval) and wasted requests when nothing's changed.

Why we need this / what value this brings

Trivial to implement and debug, at the cost of latency (bounded by the poll interval) and wasted requests when nothing changed.

When to use this

Low-stakes, low-frequency status checks where a few seconds of latency is fine and implementation simplicity matters more than efficiency.

How to use or implement this

Set the poll interval to match how fresh the data actually needs to be — don't poll every second for something that changes every few minutes.

Research questions

• Where would plain short polling actually be good enough for Localz (e.g. checking booking status on a confirmation page) instead of reaching for something real-time?

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