I like websockets. Sometimes I hit concurrency or reconnect limitations under load and I move to socketIO which is more high level. I don't like setting up anot

I like websockets. Sometimes I hit concurrency or reconnect limitations under load and I move to socketIO which is more high level. I don't like setting up another server just for communication. I do have Redis running so I was thinking to use that for communication between systems. But I am not sure yet. gRPC seems like an overkill to me. Any thoughts?