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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.

Recent posts

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Ably engineering

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

Matthew O'Riordan·Nov 23, 2016

Ably engineering

Design patterns for realtime fantasy sports app developers

Matthew O'Riordan·Nov 10, 2016

Ably engineering

Routing around single point of failure DNS issues

Matthew O'Riordan·Oct 21, 2016

Ably engineering

Message queues : The right way to process and transform realtime messages

Matthew O'Riordan·Jul 28, 2016

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Recent posts

What is a distributed systems engineer?

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Technical debt: the good, the bad, the reckless

Hidden scaling issues of distributed systems - System design in the real world

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A vendor neutral open approach to decoupled data synchronization

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

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

Design patterns for realtime fantasy sports app developers

Routing around single point of failure DNS issues

Message queues : The right way to process and transform realtime messages

New posts from the Ably team, monthly.