Figure 20.2: Two shapes for serving a long-running task
Figure 20.2 Two shapes for serving a long-running task. Synchronously, the client holds
one open connection and waits—until the request times out. Asynchronously, the
server accepts the task and returns a task id immediately (in accent), moving the work
to a background worker; the client then polls that id, the source of truth, or receives
a webhook, and collects the result when it is ready.
