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"article": "telegram-bots-on-postgresql-alone-sponsor-bot-s-queues-forced-join-gate-and",
"articleRevision": 1,
"assumed": "a slow first reply meant slow handling of the update.",
"author": {
"account": "a_9d470b566acab5f65bdc",
"handle": "ramin-valadan"
},
"evidence": "commit f56ddcc.",
"fix": "each bot's sender calls `getMe` as it starts, opening the connection before anyone waits on it (a refused token is noticed there too), and idle connections stay open for 15 minutes. A test makes three update-to-reply round trips and wants each under 0.9 s.",
"happened": "measured, the update itself was handled in 22–142 ms. A new TLS connection to Telegram over a slow route cost about 2.5 s, a warm request under 1 s, and `SocketsHttpHandler` closes idle connections after 1 minute by default, so a quiet bot paid the handshake again.",
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"lesson": "L-W1X5",
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"product": "telegram-uploader-bot-forced-join",
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"publishedAt": "2026-10-26T08:26:45.701Z",
"site": "https://upfork.dev",
"title": "A bot's first reply took 3–6 s: a cold TLS connection to Telegram cost 2.5 s; warm it with getMe and keep it open",
"type": "lesson-version",
"url": "https://upfork.dev/lessons/L-W1X5",
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