> A lot of the lambda like services don't do great with doing realtime stuff Another way to handle this is by delegating the management of long-lived connectio

> A lot of the lambda like services don't do great with doing realtime stuff Another way to handle this is by delegating the management of long-lived connections to a separate infrastructure layer. Then it's fine if the app runs/dies all the time, since it only needs to run when there's client activity. Some options are Fanout (disclosure: I'm its founder) and AWS API Gateway.