Thank you for these explanations on the clever-made Thinger background processes.
It could be good to publish this knowledge in the coding guide.
I begun with Thinger with streaming everything permanently, thinking it were more efficient than letting the dashboard poll the values. (a bad habit from MQTT 
).
Indeed Thinger offers several methods to forward the information, some are just better for both the server load and the device processes.
Thinger does it on a cleverer way: you could advertise with that!