---
title: "Understanding push vs poll in event-driven architectures"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/understanding-push-vs-poll-in-event-driven-architectures-va9lf9try
source_url: https://theburningmonk.com/2025/05/understanding-push-vs-poll-in-event-driven-architectures/
type: article
source: "theburningmonk.com"
published: 2025-05-15T16:29:50.344Z
updated: 2025-05-15T16:30:04.417Z
tags: ["aws", "architecture", "serverless", "aws-lambda"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 75
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Understanding push vs poll in event-driven architectures

**[theburningmonk.com](https://daily.dev/sources/theburningmonk)** · 4 min read · 75 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Explore the differences between push and poll models in event-driven architectures, focusing on how they affect system design, event delivery, and error handling. Learn the pros and cons of both models, suitable use cases, and how Lambda's async invocations can convert push to poll and vice versa, assisting in stream processing and real-time event handling.

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daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://theburningmonk.com/2025/05/understanding-push-vs-poll-in-event-driven-architectures/>

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**@nuhuali** · 0 upvotes

> Very informative and direct.

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