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Busses update their location only every 1 minute and website just sends a get request every 5 seconds.

Not what I would call realtime.



What would be real time for you? Every second? Millisecond? Or should we make hard constraints on the maximum latency (< 5 ms). Does the original site show the unavailability of data (within the original update frequency?).

Furthermore, if it takes 3 minutes to communicate a delayed train, and your screen is still trying to create a make-believe of updating your screen every 50 milliseconds, is it real-time?

I would even say that the 1 minute update is more real-time than the make-believe 50 millisecond updates.




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