Developers How to use GTFS data to track transit vehicles in realtime How to combine GTFS and GTFS-R data to build a tool that provides accurate vehicle positioning based on schedules and realtime updates.
Ably News Ably wins two 2020 Devportal Awards We are honored to have won two of the ten 2020 Devportal Awards.
Ably News Ably’s partnership and global GTM strategy with AWS Recently, AWS invited Ably to give a keynote address at SaaStock to share some insights into the secret sauce of what works and what doesn't, and how it can impact your startup's global go-to-market expansion strategy.
Developers A scalable, realtime quiz framework to build EdTech apps Introducing a scalable, realtime framework you can use to build reliable and interactive EdTech apps.
peer-to-peer Realtime messaging from beyond the grave In the spirit of the Hallowe'en season, and keeping things spooky, we've used the Ably peer-to-peer game framework to build a digital, online “spirit board” — the original spiritualists' tool to help you communicate
Developers Building a peer-to-peer multiplayer game with pub/sub It is October 2020 and I’m social distancing and missing my friends. At the start of lockdown I played a lot of online multiplayer party games with friends to try and replace
Ably News Ably wins Best API Debut award We’re excited to announce that Ably has won a 2020 API Award in the Best API Debut category at the API World conference and expo.
Developers Presenting a realtime communication framework to build multiplayer games Srushtika built a realtime communication framework so game devs can build multiplayer games without needing to worry about the networking side of it and instead focus on their game logic.
Ably Engineering Why Ably integrates with functions instead of delivering them A common requirement in realtime apps is to insert business logic into a message processing pipeline. Rather than offering our own functions, Ably supports these use-cases by providing a reliable gateway to invoke cloud functions or further process messages via the best available cloud services.
Developers Removal of non-inclusive terminology from Ably codebases To further support global racial justice, we're removing uses of "master", "slave" and other terminology from our software that has the potential to legitimise and perpetuate racist and other non-inclusive culture. The most immediate impact will be renaming "master" branches to "main".
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Pusher acquired by MessageBird – what is next for customers? Our CEO, Matthew O'Riordan, analyzes Pusher's acquisition, what this means for their customers, and why it's a good opportunity to migrate to Ably, the only risk-free, drop-in alternative.
Using Airtable as a database to store realtime messages In this article, we show how to use Airtable to store realtime messages using a group chat app powered by Ably's realtime infrastructure.