On: Serverless Architectures

[jkarneges]

Raw WebSocket handling could be delegated to something like Pushpin [1] (disclaimer: author). This way, the backend doesn't have to maintain any long-lived connections of its own, but it retains a similar level of control over each connection that a full backend would have had.

As an experiment, we built a chat app like this (using Stamplay as the FaaS) and it actually worked.

[1] https://github.com/fanout/pushpin

[k__ → jkarneges]

Interesting. But I need my own server to run pushpin?

[jkarneges → k__]

That or you can use Fanout Cloud which provides Pushpin-as-a-service.