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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Ably engineering
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AWS us-east-1 outage: How Ably’s multi-region architecture held up
Oct 22, 2025
Ably engineering
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Balancing act: Working within the limits of AWS network load balancers
Mar 30, 2021
Ably engineering
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Engineering a fault tolerant distributed system
Feb 15, 2021
Ably engineering
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Achieving exactly-once delivery with Ably
Nov 17, 2020
Ably engineering
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Why Ably integrates with functions instead of delivering them
Jul 28, 2020
Ably engineering
11 min read
Cassandra counter columns: Nice in theory, hazardous in practice
Jun 11, 2020
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