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Kieran Kilbride-Singh

Former Director of Product Marketing at Ably, where he helped grow the company from seed to Series B. He now leads marketing at Supercritical. Writes on WebSockets and developer tooling.

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Long Polling vs WebSockets: What’s best for realtime at scale?

Kieran Kilbride-Singh·May 15, 2025

Ably news

Gartner considers edge messaging providers like Ably critical for live experiences

Kieran Kilbride-Singh·May 11, 2022

Ably news

Ably announces $70 million Series B funding from Insight Partners and Dawn Capital

Kieran Kilbride-Singh·Jun 30, 2021

Ably news

Send cross-platform, cross-device native push notifications with our simple, unified API

Kieran Kilbride-Singh·Mar 25, 2019

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Recent posts

Long Polling vs WebSockets: What’s best for realtime at scale?

Gartner considers edge messaging providers like Ably critical for live experiences

Ably announces $70 million Series B funding from Insight Partners and Dawn Capital

Introducing Ably Asset Tracking - public beta now available

Introducing Message Delta Compression: Bandwidth-efficient realtime messaging

Ably adds native integrations for Zapier, IFTTT, and Cloudflare Workers

MQTT vs SSE: Choosing the right protocol for your project

The Realtime API Family

The Engineering Snowball Sweeping SaaS

Channel Rewind and State Persistence

Announcing support for Server-Sent Events (SSE)

Send cross-platform, cross-device native push notifications with our simple, unified API

New posts from the Ably team, monthly.