https://apicourse.com/tags/websockets/ Recent content in WebSockets on API Course Hugo en-us Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://apicourse.com/real-time-apis-websockets-server-sent-events-and-long-polling/ Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://apicourse.com/real-time-apis-websockets-server-sent-events-and-long-polling/ <p>Standard HTTP is a request-response protocol: the client sends a request, the server sends a response, the connection closes or is returned to a pool. This model is efficient for most API use cases. It is the wrong model when the server needs to push data to the client without waiting for a client request — live dashboards, chat applications, collaborative editing, real-time notifications, trading feeds. Three patterns exist to bridge this gap, each with a different complexity profile and a different set of constraints.</p>