I'm new to the GCP and currently have a microservice architecture using GKE and gRPC. The microservices are publishing events to Google Cloud Pub/Sub. My Web-UI is using Google Cloud Endpoints to send requests to the Microservices. I want to have a lot of live/push updates on the website (such as live updating user statistics etc) and now wonder how this is done best. Is it a bad practice to let the Web-UI subscribe to a topic in Google Cloud Pub/Sub? Are there other technologies in the GCP that may be better for this case?
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Cloud Pub/Sub is intended for `torrents` use cases, where you have a lot of data communicated between relatively few publishers/subscribers.
Firebase Cloud Messaging might better fit the particular `trickles` use case you describe, where you are sending smaller updates to many, possibly transient, subscribers.
