Build anything from on-demand services to race-critical vehicle tracking to transit updates
CUSTOMERS BUILDING ON ABLY
Traceable, on-demand healthcare vehicle deployment and management for critical-care patients.
Makes on the fly, time-critical adjustments mid-race.
Delivers realtime transport updates for 3 million Chicagoans each day.
Massive performance coupled with absolute data integrity for every transport use case
Geolocation. Know precisely where drivers and vehicles are and visualize on maps or dashboards.
Chat and notifications. Add chat and notifications to your apps to improve customer experience.
Stream processing. Process realtime events in your owns systems to analyze and act on realtime data.
Streaming data sources. Augment your apps with third-party data like weather or news.
Ably takes care of all our realtime needs. It gives our customers the immediacy and user experience they need to track and manage entire fleets of assets from a single dashboard, but is practically invisible - it just works in the background.
The complete realtime data synchronization stack for transport
Publish messages to millions of subscribers over channels that support multiplexing.
Know when devices or users are online by subscribing to presence events.
Retrieve previously published messages and historical presence events.
On disconnect we keep connection state and attempt reconnection every 15 seconds for two minutes.
Ably guarantees all messages are delivered in the same order as originally published.
Find and consume streaming data sources for your apps. News, transport, and more.
Ably supports pub/sub over WebSockets, MQTT, and Server-Sent Events (SSE).
Trigger business logic (e.g. AWS Lambda) or process data elsewhere (e.g. RabbitMQ).
Deliver cross-platform push notifications with our iOS and Android SDKs.
Create dependable realtime experiences at scale
Ably was built from the ground-up to be the trusted infrastructure that supports complex, business-critical, realtime experiences in fast-growing scenarios. Our mathematically modelled approach to system design ensures critical functionality at scale and provides unmatched quality of service guarantees, enabling you to create dependable digital experiences that will delight your end-users.
Ably’s Four Pillars of Dependability
We focus on predictability of latencies, and we guarantee <65 ms round trip latency for 99th percentile. We also provide unlimited channel throughput.
Message ordering, guaranteed delivery, and exactly-once semantics are built-in, from the moment a message is published to Ably, all the way to its delivery to consumers.
Fault tolerance at regional and global levels to guarantee continuity of service even in the case of multiple infrastructure failures. 99.999999% message survivability.
Ably is meticulously designed for high availability and extreme scale. We ensure 50% capacity margin for instant surges, and provide a 99.999% uptime SLA.
With approximately 290,000 passenger trips a day it is vital that Metra deliver real-time updates for train arrival information. With the tools made available by Ably, Metra is able to deliver real-time data to customers quickly, dependably, and cost effectively, which prove beneficial for both Metra and Metra passengers.
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