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What are Long and Short Polling in AWS SQS ?

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Long and Short Polling

SQS’s API is all HTTP based. This means that when our queue workers poll SQS for a new job, it’s making an HTTP request to the SQS API.

By default, this does “short polling” – if no job is available when the HTTP request is made, SQS immediately returns an empty response.

Long polling allows you to keep an HTTP request open for a certain amount of time. While the HTTP request is open, SQS may send a job to the queue worker at any time.

Laravel doesn’t do any long polling, but there is something important to know here.

If you use the SQS queue driver, you may see that some jobs take a while to get processed – as if the queue worker can’t find a new job. This is related to how SQS is scaled within AWS.

Here’s the relevant thing to know, from the SQS docs:

With short polling, the ReceiveMessage request queries only a subset of the servers (based on a weighted random distribution) to find messages that are available to include in the response. Amazon SQS sends the response right away, even if the query found no messages.

With long polling, the ReceiveMessage request queries all of the servers for messages. Amazon SQS sends a response after it collects at least one available message, up to the maximum number of messages specified in the request. Amazon SQS sends an empty response only if the polling wait time expires.

It turns out that with long polling, we’re likely to get jobs more quickly as it polls all of the SQS servers that may contain our jobs!

However, Laravel doesn’t support long-polling out of the box. Luckily, we can do something about that. There’s a little note in the bottom of the docs linked above:

Short polling occurs when the WaitTimeSeconds parameter of a ReceiveMessage request is set to 0 in one of two ways:

  • The ReceiveMessage call sets WaitTimeSeconds to 0.
  • The ReceiveMessage call doesn’t set WaitTimeSeconds, but the queue attribute ReceiveMessageWaitTimeSeconds is set to 0.

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