Keep your frontend and backend in realtime sync, at global scale
Maintain up to millions of devices in sync with a complete realtime infrastructure solution designed for Internet scale.
Companies building on Ably
Provides realtime pricing updates for millions of consumer-to-consumer auctions in its marketplace app.
Provides interactive presentations and meetings with features such as live polls, quizzes, and Q&As for 80m users.
Provides realtime sports data and odds for sports, betting, and media companies around the world.
Realtime patient engagement and care scheduling for 60k+ patients/day.
Power reliable realtime applications
Ably is a realtime infrastructure solution for event data delivery and state synchronization over the Internet. Our platform is specifically created to make it easier and faster to build realtime user experiences at scale. It is used in a wide array of web and mobile applications such as auctions, chat, quizzes, voting, staff management dashboards, and mobile gaming.
Free yourself to fully focus on your app, with no infra limitations
Maintaining reliability at scale when synching state between clients and back-end can derail you from building your core product. Ably's elastically scalable platform handles all realtime transport and provides functionality that will help you build realtime use cases faster. So you're free to focus 100% on building the features that will make you stand out to end-users.
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.
Don't fear the surge
No more worries about unexpected surges. Ably is designed to absorb very large traffic spikes, with autoscaling systems that actively manage capacity. No need to pre-provision on your part.
An unpredictable and rapidly changing number of end-users can take your entire application down and create a nightmare for your developers and business teams alike.
Maintain data integrity
All user actions and changes are synced correctly thanks to Ably's guarantees of message delivery, message ordering, and idempotent publishing.
Incorrect changes transmitted to the client or to the back-end cause user dissatisfaction and complaints.
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.
Deliver interactive applications faster
Besides removing the burden of realtime infrastructure building and maintenance, our APIs come with out-of-the-box functionality specifically designed for live and interactive application building.
41% of companies that built their own realtime infrastructure reported missed deadlines and extended timelines for product releases.
Build live and interactive applications faster with these building blocks
Presence enables clients to be aware of other clients that are currently “present” on a channel, synchronizing online user state across devices. Helps you create typing indicators, offline/online or "last seen" statuses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our client library SDKs target every major web and mobile platform and offer a simple, consistent, and intuitive API. The SDKs preserve connection state and automatically re-establish failed connections to ensure stream continuity.
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.
Ably set a new gold standard for the type of service we expect from third parties...
Resources
A fully serverless editable chat demo that can scale to arbitrary levels
A simple chat app example that shows realtime messages triggered by changes to the database and to previously published data.
Live multiplayer quiz
A look at the high-level architecture required to build a multiplayer quiz app with and without Ably, specifically exploring the realtime message flow and implementation.
Live betting app with Confluent Cloud and Ably
A relevant example for event-driven systems that process and stream live data at elastic scale over the internet.
Overview of Ably's platform
In this video Ably's CTO gives an overview of the Ably platform including how we overcome the challenges of WebSockets at scale.
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