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?

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

May 15, 2025

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