Many people share this same sentiment that RSS feeds should use a push vs pull mechanism, as if it's somehow going to solve all scalability problems. Both appro

Many people share this same sentiment that RSS feeds should use a push vs pull mechanism, as if it's somehow going to solve all scalability problems. Both approaches run into scaling issues, they're just different. Sure, pulling may fix the issue of a server working overtime to fulfill floods of excessive, unnecessary requests. But when pushing, you'll now have to have a strategy to scale and manage having so many client connections.