intertwingly

It’s just data

Symmetrical and asymmetrical system design


Sean McGrath: We have a symmetric channel (a socket). On top of that we have an asymmetrical protocol (such as HTTP). On top of that, we have asymmetric software such as e-mail pollers and RSS aggregators that re-create the symmetric channel we had in the first instance but never utilized.

Also of interest is the fact that this approach recreates symmetric in a resource intensive fashion - by polling asymmetric connections.