Our goal is to continue to do a better job of delivering reliable, performant, and full featured services. This means deprecating those APIs that have little to zero usage on our system to free up resources for newer, better performing products.
The Channel API <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/deprecations/channel>actually runs on the XMPP API <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/deprecations/xmpp> which is also being deprecated. If you wish to continue using an XMPP system, you can always run your own XMPP server on Google Compute Engine <https://cloud.google.com/compute/> using a third party XMPP library <https://xmpp.org/software/libraries.html>. A better alternative though might be to use Socket.IO on a GCE <https://cloud.google.com/compute/> or Google App Engine Flexible <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/> instance as shown in our example guide for real time gaming <https://cloud.google.com/solutions/real-time-gaming-with-node-js-websocket> . Note, the above two alternatives along with Firebase are indeed heavier integrations. For the best light weight alternative, I would highly recommend switching over to Google Cloud Pub/Sub <https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/> for real time messaging, as it supports the fan-out messaging pattern much better than Channel API. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/bc03a52d-c7e5-4907-822c-9029c8b7b9ba%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
