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Paddy Byers

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

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

Paddy Byers·Oct 22, 2025
Balancing act: Working within the limits of AWS network load balancers
Ably engineering

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

Paddy Byers·Mar 30, 2021
Engineering a fault tolerant distributed system
Ably engineering

Engineering a fault tolerant distributed system

Paddy Byers·Feb 15, 2021
Achieving exactly-once delivery with Ably
Ably engineering

Achieving exactly-once delivery with Ably

Paddy Byers·Nov 17, 2020
Why Ably integrates with functions instead of delivering them
Ably engineering

Why Ably integrates with functions instead of delivering them

Paddy Byers·Jul 28, 2020
Cassandra counter columns: Nice in theory, hazardous in practice
Ably engineering

Cassandra counter columns: Nice in theory, hazardous in practice

Paddy Byers·Jun 11, 2020