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Your AI chat types its answer word by word. That's SSE, not WebSockets. When you need which

Claude's and OpenAI's APIs stream tokens over server-sent events, a plain HTTP response that never hangs up. Here's when that's all you need, when you really need WebSockets, why polling is fine more often than you'd think, and the proxy and serverless clocks that cut long connections.

Aliteq Team · 3h ago · 13 min