https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Protocol News feed https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/workers-inbound-tcp-grpc/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Protocol-news <img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/08/workers-inbound-tcp-grpc/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1787654507205.jpg"/><p>Cloudflare Workers can now accept inbound TCP connections through a new connect(socket) handler routed via Spectrum, ending an eight-year restriction to HTTP. Containers get full-duplex gRPC in any language, while Workers get unary and server-streaming through automatic gRPC-web translation. Everything is private beta.</p> <i>By Steef-Jan Wiggers</i> Cloudflare Cloud Serverless Protocol Architecture Edge Computing DevOps Architecture & Design Development news Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:55:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/workers-inbound-tcp-grpc/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Protocol-news Steef-Jan Wiggers 2026-08-29T09:55:00Z /news/2026/08/workers-inbound-tcp-grpc/en