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What is WebTransport and can it replace WebSockets?

The future of WebTransport looks bright, but can it replace the more established WebSockets?

Realtime challenges for audience engagement

Audience engagement features demand a realtime solution. Here are some of the challenges to consider before you build one.

Industry Trends

First down or just down? Is your realtime infrastructure the real MVP?

The Super Bowl promises an unpredictable and rapidly changing number of end-users, which can cause massive spikes in demand for realtime data.

Developers

Infrastructure as Code: Manage apps using the Ably Control API GitHub Action

With Infrastructure as Code (IaC) cloud infrastructure can be deployed in a repeatable and reliable way. We have developed a Control API, including a GitHub Action that allows developers to create Ably apps and API keys in their GitHub workflows.

Ably engineering

Redis scripts do not expire keys atomically

Integrity isn't guaranteed if you autoexpire multiple Redis keys within a script. To solve this, we switched from relative to absolute expiry times.

Developers

Vue.js and Node.js tutorial: a realtime collaboration app hosted in Azure Static Web Apps

This tutorial describes how to build a realtime collaboration app, based on Vue.js, Node.js, and Static Web Apps, that scrum teams can use for planning poker.

Developers

The WebSocket Handbook: learn about the technology behind the realtime web

Learn about the core building blocks of the WebSocket technology and discover the benefits of event-driven architectures with WebSockets.

Ably engineering

Channel global decoupling for region discovery

We've rolled out a complete redesign of the way region discovery happens. This post explains our new approach: channel global decoupling.

Ably news

Ably wins three 2021 DevPortal Awards

We are honored to have won: Best Use of API Gateway Integration, Best API Business Model, and Best Overall SME Dev Portal.

Ably engineering

Conform and monitor...with humanity

The Ably SDK team has developed a tool to ensure consistency across all our Github repositories and orgs.

The realtime web: evolution of the user experience

Learn how the web has evolved to support asynchronous communication, and how organizations are putting realtime at the heart of their products.

What is pub/sub and how to apply it in C# .NET to build a chat app

Learn how to use the pub/sub pattern and build a chat console app in .NET6.

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What is WebTransport and can it replace WebSockets?

Realtime challenges for audience engagement

First down or just down? Is your realtime infrastructure the real MVP?

Infrastructure as Code: Manage apps using the Ably Control API GitHub Action

Redis scripts do not expire keys atomically

Vue.js and Node.js tutorial: a realtime collaboration app hosted in Azure Static Web Apps

The WebSocket Handbook: learn about the technology behind the realtime web

Channel global decoupling for region discovery

Ably wins three 2021 DevPortal Awards

Conform and monitor...with humanity

The realtime web: evolution of the user experience

What is pub/sub and how to apply it in C# .NET to build a chat app

The Ably Platform

Our features

Our technology

By use case

Why companies choose Ably

Four pillars of dependability

Blog

Documentation

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Quick links

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