I believe this is one of those quintessential use-cases for web sockets,
maybe this will be of some help?
https://www.websocket.org/quantum.html
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Andrew Munn <andrew_at_nmedia.net> wrote:
> What would be the best strategy for streaming realtime stock prices to a
> number of client web pages over the internet(not just a LAN)? messages
> will be small (under 16 bytes) but numerous and minimal latency would be
> ideal.
>
> The idea is a browser opens a web page from Server #1, on that page is an
> area where prices are displayed. Server #2 feeds those prices into that
> page and they're displayed. Should Server #2 be using:
>
> WebSockets?
>
> Comet? (HTTP Streaming? Long Polling?)
>
>
> Thanks!
>