Thanks Jordan. How were you thinking that pubsub will work all the way out to the browsers?
Thanks, PK [email protected] PS I could write a lot about the first two sentences of your response but I will skip it. I will just say that it is ironic that a low usage platform like GCP makes such bold deprecation statements at a moment when it should be convincing customers that is here to stay so that they do not deploy with the default choice, the competitor who has 95% of the market. > On Nov 1, 2016, at 7:25 AM, 'Jordan (Cloud Platform Support)' via Google App > Engine <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine > <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 > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/bc03a52d-c7e5-4907-822c-9029c8b7b9ba%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- 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/DBCACFFD-4C49-4E4D-B9EE-D6E1E3B39648%40gae123.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
