Can I run background processes on the server?

[Hubro]

I'm planning on trying out Solid Start for an internal dashboard-type application that shows realtime statuses and stats.

I want the server side to constantly fetch up-to-date information from a Kubernetes cluster and store it in a Redis database.

Basically, as soon as the Solid Start server starts up, I want to connect to a Kubernetes controller and subscribe to events, updating the Redis database as new information streams in.

I could launch a separate process to do this, but I'd prefer to do this in the same process as Solid Start to simplify deployment, if possible.

Is this a terribly bad idea? If not, what would be the preferred way to do this? Could I just add a setInterval to entry-server.tsx?