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Architectural patterns

Architectural recommendations and reusable implementations for some of the most interesting realtime use-cases.

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Live audience engagement

Live audience engagement features enable global realtime collaboration between millions of users.

Live multiplayer quiz

Recommendations to build a scalable multiplayer quiz app with architecture comparisons along with a starker kit and a demo.

Recommendations to build HQ style quiz apps that demand reliable and super fast realtime communication. Includes a sample app!

Live chat

Learn about building scalable live chat systems and chat-related functionality.

Read receipts for chat apps

A set of easy-to-follow recommendations to build a read receipts system for chat applications. Includes a live demo.

Apache Kafka and Ably: Building scalable, dependable chat applications

Learn how you can combine the capabilities of Kafka and Ably to engineer chat functionality that is guaranteed to deliver at scale.

Realtime analytics

Learn about building realtime analytics capabilities.

Maximize the value of realtime analytics with Kafka and Ably

Learn how you can use Kafka and Ably to engineer a high-performance analytics pipeline that connects your backend to end-users at the network edge in realtime.

Realtime and databases

Considerations of realtime and databases.

Scaling Firebase - Practical considerations and limitations

Firebase is used to keep frontend clients and your backend in sync - for example, chat apps, and multiplayer collaboration. But how well does it scale?