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Heroku has supported websockets through its routing infrastructure for ages, along with things like SNI (which has been mentioned elsewhere here as things peopl
by cemerick 9y ago
Heroku has supported websockets through its routing infrastructure for ages, along with things like SNI (which has been mentioned elsewhere here as things people wish were available in GCP). Not a ding on GCP necessarily, just notable how featureful mature cloud platforms are, such that "even Google" is playing catch-up.
- rdeckard0104 9y agoI wouldn't say playing catch up so much as I would say they're focused on features that provide the greatest amount of benefit to the greatest number of users. SNI is easily solved by setting up a Nginx proxy behind their HTTPS load balancer. Sure, I would really like it if SNI were baked in, but where they may seem like they fall short on small things, like this they are eons ahead of other providers with products, like BigQuery. BigQuery has made all the difference in the world for our engineering department. We have a vast, robust data warehouse, it's easy to read/write, easy to manage, and best of all we do not have the brunt maintenance around supports its own infrastructure.