Google Cloud Functions with socket.io

Question

My understanding is that to establish a persistent socket connection using socket.io the Node.js server should be always running. With Google Cloud Functions there isn\'t an

Answer 1

Neither Cloud Functions nor Cloud Run are able to support persistent socket connections for the same reasons. Each request has a timeout that can't be infinite. If you want to use socket.io effectively, you will need a different backend - one where you fully control the server instances.