Today sees the official launch of Ably, a new UK-based realtime messaging platform developed by Econsultancy co-founder Matthew O’Riordan and former Tao Group CTO Paddy Byers.

Backing a great team, growing market, and need makes sense. And I cannot think the need to manage data in realtime is not going to grow.

After over two years of intense product development, today we've reached a significant milestone —the beta launch of our global realtime messaging service.