Broadcast realtime event data to millions of devices around the globe
Ensure low latency and data integrity regardless of where your users are - or what devices they are using - with a complete realtime infrastructure solution built for Internet scale.
Companies building on Ably
Broadcasts live score updates from Australia in milliseconds to millions of global tennis fans.
Powers realtime analysis on the impact of every feature on hundreds of business, product, and operational metrics.
Initiates millions of VoIP calls and enables interactive events and webinars for large organizations around the world.
Delivers realtime transport updates for 3 million Chicagoans each day.
The power of high-ratio fan-out at your fingertips
Ably powers a wide array of applications that require broadcasting realtime data such as live scores, traffic updates, or news commentary to large, spiky audiences on the Internet. Ably gives you the power of realtime data transport through serverless pub/sub event streaming, delivered at the edge over WebSockets.
Free yourself to fully focus on growing your app, with no infra limitations
Having to maintain reliability when broadcasting realtime updates to devices all over the world can slow down product building. Our elastically scalable platform will handle anything you throw through it from day one. You focus on your core features, we handle the low-level realtime transport - with hard guarantees and SLAs across performance, data integrity, security, and reliability.
Reliable QoS at Internet scale
Backed by a 99.999% uptime SLA and a system designed with no single point of failure, your users' realtime experiences are never disrupted.
At risk of increasing service disruptions and negative customer experiences when you hit scale.
Global low latency
All Ably customer apps run across 7 regions and 307 PoPs, providing resilience, reliability, and global low latencies. Ably guarantees median round trip latencies of ~65ms for the 99th percentile, so you can maintain the same quality of service regardless of where your users are.
When your user base grows, providing the same quality of service to all your users can become tricky. Customers in more distant regions will experience higher latencies, which will affect their user experience and ultimately your bottom line if your updates become too slow to be considered realtime.
Don't fear the traffic spike
Easily handle unpredictable and rapidly changing numbers of devices connecting to your updates. Ably is designed to absorb very large and unexpected spikes, with autoscaling systems that actively manage capacity. No need to pre-provision on your part.
An unexpected surge can take your entire application down and create a nightmare for your users, your developers, and your business teams alike.
Effortless data integrity
Your updates are always delivered, in the exact order they are sent, and they are delivered exactly once. Thanks to Ably's message delivery, message ordering, and idempotent publishing guarantees.
Failed or incorrect message delivery can cause user dissatisfaction and complaints, or can entirely cripple the functioning of your application.
Great user experience on any mobile device
Ably’s client library SDKs provide cross-platform support for all visitor devices and browsers regardless of whether they have modern support for WebSockets. The client library SDKs gracefully fall back to the lowest common denominator transports like HTTP streaming, XHR and JSONP where necessary, ensuring all visitors were delivered the realtime updates.
Having to ensure that your realtime application will deliver on all devices puts extra strain on your front-end teams, delaying them from completing other work.
Lower your total cost of ownership
Ably is a serverless solution and only charges for what you actually use. On average, our customers reported $300k+ savings in cloud costs in just the first year and $500k reduced build cost.
The ongoing costs of managing and debugging as you scale and the stress of incident response alerts at 4 am place significant burdens on many companies.
Build your realtime applications faster with these building blocks
Distribute events to millions of subscribers over channels that support multiplexing with Ably’s feature-rich pub/sub APIs. We ensure delivery of the right message to the right client in realtime.
Changing from mobile to wifi, going into tunnels and bad networks are frequent mobile UI problems. Ably keeps state and retries connection every 15 seconds for two minutes, for a seamless user experience.
Ably provides an SSE and raw HTTP streaming API for cases where using a full Ably Realtime client library is impractical. It can be a more memory-efficient solution for simple read-only applications.
A client can receive up to 100 messages from the last 72 hours prior to their connection. Updates can be made available to new users the moment the page loads, with fewer API calls, lower latency, and lower bandwidth usage.
Last state on the channel can be stored for a long amount of time, so a client can sync on reconnect, even after more time has passed.
Presence enables you to be aware of other clients that are currently “present” on a channel. For example, it can be used to start a broadcast only when enough devices have come online.
Maintain a modular stack
Ably can be integrated with many other protocols, databases, clouds and services, so you can use the tools that suit your growth plans best. We also provide managed integrations with a series of cloud services.
Our formal evaluation process and double load testing proved that Ably was the only platform that could meet our very challenging performance targets. They delivered without a hitch in 2018 and we look forward to working with them again next year.
Resources
Extend Kafka to end-users on the open Internet
Ably offers a simple, dependable, scalable, and secure way to distribute messages from Kafka to web, mobile, and IoT clients anywhere in the world.
What is event streaming? A deep dive
Elemental components, use cases, alternatives, and open-source and commercial implementation reviews.
Scalable event streaming with Redis and Golang
A reliable data broadcasting structure example built with a combination of Redis and Ably, and written in Go.
Using Ably at Scale
Ably's co-founder and Chief Scientist shows how Ably's horizontally scalable platform allows apps to be structured for limitless load.
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