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Re:Node.js is now available on App Engine standard environment by doomslice on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @06:42PM (#17298743)
How about eventsource or websocket connections? Will those work (both websockets to the server and to external servers)?
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Re:Node.js is now available on App Engine standard environment by tejohnso on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @06:54PM (#17298826)
Requests are expected to complete within 60s so a websocket connection is probably not sensible.

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/how-re...

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Re:Node.js is now available on App Engine standard environment by jkarneges on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @07:09PM (#17298907)
For handling incoming long-lived connections, you could pair with Fanout [1] (disclosure: founder). Basically the client sees a raw WebSocket, and your backend gets woken up with HTTP requests when things happen.

I haven't seen anything like this for outbound connections though.

[1] https://fanout.io

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Re:Node.js is now available on App Engine standard environment by steren on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @07:52PM (#17299115)
(Pm on the team) App Engine Standard does not support websockets at the moment.
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