Yep, the poke pattern is additionally nice because it means my state reconciliation function is the same when running on cron interval vs event driven.
On the flip side, it helps to have endpoints which have a query param linking to some sort of resource update time stamp. That way you can query to only get those items changed since last poll.
On the flip side, it helps to have endpoints which have a query param linking to some sort of resource update time stamp. That way you can query to only get those items changed since last poll.