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Periklis Gkolias
Periklis Gkolias

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How would you create a web API with streaming input and output (eg stocks monitoring system) without tools like Kafka and Spark?

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Felipe Marques

Maybe using websocket? Or Redis pubsub feature?

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Kimmo Sääskilahti

I also thought first of websockets. gRPC is also worth looking into. Or maybe GraphQL streaming, don't know how that works nowadays.

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Periklis Gkolias

Websockets sounds a great idea. And it is relatively easy to implement a WS client/server.

I have never heard GQL streaming and redis pubsub. Will totally look into

Thank you guys

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Periklis Gkolias

Thank you Nico. Not sure if long polling is a viable option in my book, but I will totally try the rest :)

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Matthew Daly

My first choice would probably be WebSockets, but it might be worth a look at server-sent events for a possible simpler solution.