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Paddy Byers
Paddy Byers
Paddy is Ably’s Chief Scientist and Co-founder. An active open source dev + contributor to Node.js, he has 20+ years’ experience building + leading software teams, incl. as CTO of Tao Group.
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Balancing act: Working within the limits of AWS network load balancers
Ably engineering
10 min read

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

Paddy Byers
Mar 30, 2021
Engineering a fault tolerant distributed system
Ably engineering
20 min read

Engineering a fault tolerant distributed system

Paddy Byers
Feb 15, 2021
Achieving exactly-once delivery with Ably
Ably engineering
24 min read

Achieving exactly-once delivery with Ably

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

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
11 min read

Cassandra counter columns: Nice in theory, hazardous in practice

Paddy Byers
Jun 11, 2020

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