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Ably engineering
14 min read
Five strategies to remove single points of DNS failure
Oct 23, 2019
![Google - polling like it's the 90s](https://ik.imagekit.io/ably/ghost/prod/2019/10/desktop-crt.png?tr=w-768,q-50)
Ably engineering
10 min read
Google - polling like it's the 90s
Oct 2, 2019
![Moving from a distributed system to FIFO: Challenges & considerations](https://ik.imagekit.io/ably/ghost/prod/2019/12/sqs-queues.jpg?tr=w-768,q-50)
Ably engineering
8 min read
Moving from a distributed system to FIFO: Challenges & considerations
![Tsviatko Yovtchev](https://ik.imagekit.io/ably/ghost/prod/2019/11/tsviatko.jpg?tr=w-96,q-50)
Aug 21, 2019
![Ably Debugging Tales - A Mystery in Elixir](https://ik.imagekit.io/ably/ghost/prod/2019/12/code.jpg?tr=w-768,q-50)
Ably engineering
8 min read
Ably Debugging Tales - A Mystery in Elixir
![Simon Woolf](https://ik.imagekit.io/ably/ghost/prod/2020/07/simonwoolf.png?tr=w-96,q-50)
Jul 30, 2019
![Technical debt: the good, the bad, the reckless](https://ik.imagekit.io/ably/ghost/prod/2019/12/tech-debt.jpg?tr=w-768,q-50)
Ably engineering
8 min read
Technical debt: the good, the bad, the reckless
Apr 9, 2019
![Hidden scaling issues of distributed systems - System design in the real world](https://ik.imagekit.io/ably/ghost/prod/2019/05/1-G7-kBw68rflD88Iss_ryXA.png?tr=w-768,q-50)
Ably engineering
34 min read
Hidden scaling issues of distributed systems - System design in the real world
![Freddie Gadd](https://ik.imagekit.io/ably/ghost/prod/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-05-15-at-12.30.41.png?tr=w-96,q-50)
Aug 1, 2018
![Building a distributed rate limiter that scales horizontally](https://ik.imagekit.io/ably/ghost/prod/2022/09/building-a-distributed-rate-limiter-that-scales-horizontally.png?tr=w-768,q-50)
Ably engineering
11 min read
Building a distributed rate limiter that scales horizontally
![Simon Woolf](https://ik.imagekit.io/ably/ghost/prod/2020/07/simonwoolf.png?tr=w-96,q-50)
Jul 26, 2018
![Introducing Distributed Deep Dive interviews by Ably](https://ik.imagekit.io/ably/ghost/prod/2019/12/Screenshot-2019-12-05-at-12.06.54.png?tr=w-768,q-50)
Ably engineering
3 min read
Introducing Distributed Deep Dive interviews by Ably
Jul 25, 2018
![Hack GitHub to build your own wiki in five steps](https://ik.imagekit.io/ably/ghost/prod/2019/05/1-gJWkidKhcYg1SC4lN0OVSQ.jpeg?tr=w-768,q-50)
Ably engineering
4 min read
Hack GitHub to build your own wiki in five steps
![Thomas Camp](https://ik.imagekit.io/ably/ghost/prod/2019/07/Screenshot-2019-07-09-at-15.58.02.png?tr=w-96,q-50)
Jul 3, 2018
![Upgrading to Node v8 has significantly reduced our operating costs](https://ik.imagekit.io/ably/ghost/prod/2019/05/1-hFLt6ECW3tpNNfUZRngbzA.png?tr=w-768,q-50)
Ably engineering
6 min read
Upgrading to Node v8 has significantly reduced our operating costs
Jun 21, 2018
![Consistent hashing explained](https://ik.imagekit.io/ably/ghost/prod/2022/01/how-we-efficiently-implemented-consistent-hashing@2x.png?tr=w-768,q-50)
Ably engineering
15 min read
Consistent hashing explained
Jun 19, 2018
![This Android VM bug causes interned strings to be handled incorrectly](https://ik.imagekit.io/ably/ghost/prod/2019/05/1-glM75aAwp-pPZ-Fhm0OQ9w.jpeg?tr=w-768,q-50)
Ably engineering
5 min read
This Android VM bug causes interned strings to be handled incorrectly
May 31, 2018