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Matthew O'Riordan
Matthew O'Riordan
London, UK
CEO and co-founder of Ably. Previously co-founded Econsultancy, sold in 2012. Love programming, distributed systems, product design, and skiing, kite surfing and skydiving.
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45 posts
How to stay GDPR compliant - 5 key updates to consider and this is why
Ably news#freddie
6 min read

How to stay GDPR compliant - 5 key updates to consider and this is why

Matthew O'Riordan
Apr 27, 2018
Design patterns for betting app developers
Industry Trends
11 min read

Design patterns for betting app developers

Matthew O'Riordan
Apr 10, 2018
Are you losing sports and betting customers through poor UX?
Industry Trends#freddie
3 min read

Are you losing sports and betting customers through poor UX?

Matthew O'Riordan
Apr 9, 2018
Sports and betting apps: why 99.99% uptime isn't good enough
Industry Trends#freddie
3 min read

Sports and betting apps: why 99.99% uptime isn't good enough

Matthew O'Riordan
Apr 3, 2018
A vendor neutral open approach to decoupled data synchronization
Ably engineering
7 min read

A vendor neutral open approach to decoupled data synchronization

Matthew O'Riordan
Jan 26, 2018
Ably raises $1m to deliver next generation realtime digital experiences
Ably news
3 min read

Ably raises $1m to deliver next generation realtime digital experiences

Matthew O'Riordan
Jul 13, 2017
Relaunching the Universal API for Realtime
Ably news
3 min read

Relaunching the Universal API for Realtime

Matthew O'Riordan
May 22, 2017
Ably push notifications are now available
Ably news
1 min read

Ably push notifications are now available

Matthew O'Riordan
Apr 26, 2017
Ably v1.0 client libraries released
Ably news
13 min read

Ably v1.0 client libraries released

Matthew O'Riordan
Apr 25, 2017
Honest status reporting and AWS service status "truth" in a post-truth world
Ably engineering
5 min read

Honest status reporting and AWS service status "truth" in a post-truth world

Matthew O'Riordan
Feb 10, 2017
News flash: Ably is no longer a pub/sub messaging platform, long live pub/sub!
Ably news
3 min read

News flash: Ably is no longer a pub/sub messaging platform, long live pub/sub!

Matthew O'Riordan
Feb 7, 2017
The 18 ghosts in your infrastructure stack that can cause failure (and how to avoid them)
Ably engineering
4 min read

The 18 ghosts in your infrastructure stack that can cause failure (and how to avoid them)

Matthew O'Riordan
Nov 23, 2016
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