HTTP Feeds: a minimal specification for polling events over HTTP

HTTP Feeds Asynchronous event streaming and data replication with plain HTTP APIs. HTTP feeds is a minimal specification for polling events over HTTP: An HTTP feed provides a HTTP GET endpoint that returns a chronological sequence (!) of events serialized in CloudEvents event format in batched responses using the media type application/cloudevents-batch+json and respects the lastEventId query parameter to scroll through further items query parameter to scroll through further items to support infinite polling for real-time feed subscriptions. HTTP feeds can be used to decouple systems asynchronously without message brokers, such as Kafka or RabbitMQ. Example GET /inventory HTTP / 1.1 Host : https://example.http-feeds.org HTTP / 1.1 200 OK Content-Type : application/cloudevents-batch+json [{ "specversion" : "1.0", "type" : "org.http-feeds.example.inventory", "source" : "https://example.http-feeds.org/inventory", "id" : "1c6b8c6e-d8d0-4a91-b51c-1f56bd04c758", "time" : "2021-01 ... Read full article.