Aviationstack API

You’re building a flight tracking app. A user is heading to the airport, and suddenly their gate changes.The question is: how fast does your app know?Do you keep asking the API every 30 seconds, “Anything new?” Or do you set things up, so your system gets notified the moment something changes?That’s the webhook vs polling decision in a nutshell.And with flight data, this decision actually…

You’re building a flight tracking app. A user is heading to the airport, and suddenly their gate changes.The question is: how fast does your app know?Do you keep asking the API every 30 seconds, “Anything new?” Or do you set things up, so your system gets notified the moment something changes?That’s the webhook vs polling decision in a nutshell.And with flight data api, this decision…