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Paddy Byers

Co-founder and CTO at Ably. He holds a PhD in Theoretical Computer Science and spent eight years as CTO of Tao Group. Active contributor to Node.js. 30+ years of engineering experience.

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Recent posts

AWS us-east-1 outage: How Ably’s multi-region architecture held up

Ably supports Ukraine

Balancing act: Working within the limits of AWS network load balancers

Engineering a fault tolerant distributed system

Achieving exactly-once delivery with Ably

Why Ably integrates with functions instead of delivering them

Removal of non-inclusive terminology from Ably codebases

Cassandra counter columns: Nice in theory, hazardous in practice

Ably solidarity statement for race equality globally

Recent posts

AWS us-east-1 outage: How Ably’s multi-region architecture held up

Ably supports Ukraine

Balancing act: Working within the limits of AWS network load balancers

Engineering a fault tolerant distributed system

Achieving exactly-once delivery with Ably

Why Ably integrates with functions instead of delivering them

Removal of non-inclusive terminology from Ably codebases

Cassandra counter columns: Nice in theory, hazardous in practice

Ably solidarity statement for race equality globally

New posts from the Ably team, monthly.