AWS API or EC2 for chat?

[Yoo]

Hi all! I built a chat app without dj channels, but now I’m stuck with pricing... and just AWS in general. Every time I look up Websockets, I’m told to use AWS API Gateway. Why? And if so, how would I split my project between EC2 for website and API Gateway for my mobile users and for chats?

Or am I comparing the wrong things? Is the comparison between gateway and load balancer?

[Motaz Hejaze]

Any hint how you built the chat without channels ? Because i realy hate its complixity ..

On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, 4:30 am Yoo, <andrek...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all! I built a chat app without dj channels, but now I’m stuck with pricing... and just AWS in general. Every time I look up Websockets, I’m told to use AWS API Gateway. Why? And if so, how would I split my project between EC2 for website and API Gateway for my mobile users and for chats?

Or am I comparing the wrong things? Is the comparison between gateway and load balancer?

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[Andrew C.]

The only hint I can freely provide is to use celery tasks. They let you do taskname.delay(pk_user1, for_chat_pk). You  can look online for an article with the url dev.to to setup your asgi.py file. That’s all I can freely give out, though. Good luck!

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[Motaz Hejaze]

That was unexpected , i thaught about using python module socketio

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[Andrew C.]

I’ve figured my original question out. API Gateway is usually paired with Lambda. They scale easily, but I’m pretty much expecting 24/7 usage, which Lambda isn’t the best option for(???). I use cookiecutter-django, so I’ll be using ECS. Unfortunately, costs are sky high... If anyone’s able to help me out any further regarding costs, please do so. Thanks!

I can provide one last hint. 1) understand what AnonymousUser model is. 2) Look at 

https://github.com/SimpleJWT/django-rest-framework-simplejwt/blob/master/rest_framework_simplejwt/models.py#L31

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