{
  "id": 12414815,
  "title": "Building a Sub-100ms Live Odds Ticker: REST vs WebSocket vs Webhooks Compared",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/building-a-sub-100ms-live-odds-ticker-rest-vs-websocket-vs-webhooks",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-06T16:04:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/orbistats/building-a-sub-100ms-live-odds-ticker-rest-vs-websocket-vs-webhooks-compared-3755"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "In this guide, we explore three methods for delivering live odds data to a ticker: REST polling, WebSocket streaming, and Webhooks. We compare these methods based on latency, cost, complexity, and failure modes, and provide a reconnect-safe client that can be reused in production. The guide uses the Orbistats Odds API as an example, as it supports all three delivery methods through a normalized schema. The guide also emphasizes the importance of understanding the various factors that contribute to the sub-100ms goal, including network distance, TLS handshakes, JSON parsing, and rendering.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}