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Whitepaper
Jun, 2021

Using the Ably platform at scale

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The practical limits of our horizontally-scalable platform.

Ably is designed to scale horizontally. In principle any arbitrary load can be handled. But there are always practical limits. This data sheet explores those limits and discusses how applications can be structured so as to avoid limits being a problem in practice.

Companies building on Ably

  1. Powers live chat, updates, analytics, and composition for millions of users.

  2. Powers realtime analysis of feature impact on business, product, and operational metrics.

  3. Realtime patient engagement and care scheduling for 60k+ patients/day.