Engineering Blog WebSockets vs Long Polling When we need information from our servers as soon as it’s available, push-based methods like WebSockets and Long Polling are the go-to choices. But which is better?
Data in Motion Sharing: A Short History of Data As data explodes, this articles looks at how networks working behind the screens have evolved to enable data sharing at scale - and the implications of this for future data sharing patterns.
Data in Motion The real(time) future of sports data Coming from leagues, fans and regulators, demand for sports data in realtime has led to a proliferation of streaming APIs. Are current data transfer systems fit to support a fast-changing industry?
Engineering Blog Technical debt: the good, the bad, the reckless It’s not always a case of debt = bad. Used intelligently, technical debt provides quick fixes to problems and boosts innovation. But you'll soon know when your technical debt needs paying off.
Data in Motion What mobile sports fans want When interactions occur predominantly through mobile, customer satisfaction relies largely on the efficiency of technologies delivering the experience.
Ably News Send cross-platform, cross-device native push notifications with our simple, unified API Ably Push Notifications graduate from beta, bringing native mobile push notifications to the Ably platform through a simple, unified API.
Data in Motion The sports data revolution will not be televized Data revolutionized sport, now UX expectations are revolutionizing sports data. In the race to meet demand, can data providers rise to the challenge?
Ably News Ably's Client Library SDKs 1.1 release Ably's 1.1 client library SDK release brings transient publishing, native push notifications, idempotent publishing, and more.
Ably News London startup Ably Realtime opens live data streams to power 'next generation' digital experiences Ably recently launched the Open Data Streaming Program (ODSP), an initiative designed to democratize the realtime data-sharing economy.
Ably News Announcing our new Channel Metadata API With the new Channel Metadata API, you can keep abreast of changes in metadata associated with your channels; or request this information whenever you need it.
Ably News Announcing Ably's Open Data Streaming Program Developers can now host and distribute open streaming data sources for free through Ably's Open Data Streaming Program (ODSP).
Ably News Programming For Non-Programmers - How To Thrive In A Tech Startup How to thrive in a startup when you're not technically-minded.
Ably News Announcing our Business packages As a developer-focussed business, we understand that developers crave simplicity. So we've simplified our pricing model.
Ably News Boosting Developer Experience on our website with a major facelift Our team have been working for months on improving our website and overall developer experience. We're proud to share what we've been up to below.
Engineering Blog Hidden scaling issues of distributed systems - System design in the real world In this distributed deep dive interview we explore hidden scaling issues with Paul Nordstrom —former Systems Architect at Google, Amazon & OfferUp.
Engineering Blog Building a distributed rate limiter that scales horizontally Efficient rate limiting with a growing distributed cluster is hard. These are the challenges we faced when building a horizontally scalable rate limiter.
Engineering Blog Introducing the 'Distributed Deep Dive' interview series by Ably Realtime An in-depth video interview series aimed at sharing experiences and challenges faced by Distributed Systems Engineers while building world class app.
Data in Motion Why IoT in Healthcare matters and what you should know about it The Internet of Things is more than buzz and hype. Healthcare is seeing real implementations changing the way devices interact and the impact they have.
Engineering Blog Hacking GitHub to build your own wiki We wanted to convert the GitHub Wiki to one of our own hosted sites. Here's how we did it.
Engineering Blog Upgrading to Node v8 has significantly reduced our operating costs Following an upgrade from Node.js v6 to v8, our latencies are more consistent and our global infrastructure server costs have gone down by almost 40%.
Engineering Blog How we efficiently implemented consistent hashing Ably is a distributed realtime messaging platform. To ensure load and data are distributed evenly and consistently we use consistent hashing algorithms.
Data in Motion Data is no longer at REST A brief look at the history of web technologies, and our readiness for the realtime web.
Data in Motion How live comments are changing the way we communicate A main use of realtime connectivity by digital publishers is live features. These enhance user experience and help keep readers engaged.
Engineering Blog This Android VM bug causes interned strings to be handled incorrectly While building our Java client library SDK with Android, one of our customers found that, on some devices, some messages were missing meta-data.
Ably News Four reasons why every business should think like a SaaS Business The reason we should all think like SaaS businesses is that it forces us to focus on delivering a great product/service with excellent customer support.
Ably News 94 tools you need to grow your startup Running a rapidly-growing startup is a huge challenge. The right tools can help escalate growth. But there's no perfect tool for everything.
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The reality of megatrends = 175 ZB of data by 2025 The world's collective data consumption currently stands at 33 ZB. By 2025 the amount of data consumed will rise more than five-fold to 175 ZB. What do these numbers mean in practice?
Introducing Idempotent Publishing Idempotent publishing is now available across all Ably 1.1 client library SDKs. This introduces publish-once guarantees, removing duplication of messages.
Innovate UK Grant powers internet’s first realtime-native API Management platform A substantial grant from UK Innovation Agency, Innovate UK, builds additional functionality for the Internet's first realtime-native API Management tool.
