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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.
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HQ style games
Recommendations to build HQ style quiz apps that demand reliable and super fast realtime communication. Includes a sample app!
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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.
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Scalable, dependable chat applications with Apache Kafka and Ably
Learn how you can combine the capabilities of Kafka and Ably to engineer chat functionality that is guaranteed to deliver at scale.
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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.
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Realtime and databases

Considerations of realtime and databases.

Scaling the Firebase Realtime Database beyond 200k users
We take a look at Firebase Realtime Database and we show how to scale it beyond 200k users by building a chat app.
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