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@walter.almeida

For instance, showing a post with comments from many different users : it would not be efficient to get all the data from all PODs of the commenters with classical http requests, consolidate the data and then display at the end. It would be required to highly parallelize the calls using web sockets, and display the data on the fly whenever a new piece is available.

You can do that in parallel with HTTP. With HTTP/2 even the performance is good.

@walter.almeida

However: a single page for a given user is by nature limited in terms of how much information can be displayed on a single page !

Exactly. Therefore you you can just load, let’s say a batch of 10 comments in parallel using HTTP, and further batches continuously while the user navigates through the comment list.