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Design patterns

Tried and true patterns used during the process of designing systems.
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Event streaming

Event streaming is an implementation of the pub/sub architecture pattern with certain specific characteristics.

What is Event Streaming? A Deep Dive
An event streaming deep dive. Its elemental components, use cases, alternatives, and review of some open-source and commercial implementations.
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Idempotency

A pattern of immutability under identical repeated requests, used to implement exactly-once semantics.

Idempotency - Challenges and Solutions Over HTTP
An idempotent operation is one whose effect is the same whether it is performed once or multiple times. Learn more about idempotency, and how Ably provides it.
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Pub/sub

A message exchange pattern that scales by decoupling senders and receivers.

Pub/Sub pattern architecture
Learn about the key components involved in any Pub/Sub system, understand the characteristics of Pub/Sub architecture, and explore its benefits.
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What is Pub/Sub? The Publish/Subscribe model explained
Learn everything you need to know about Pub/Sub, a design pattern that’s used to implement event-driven architectures and realtime messaging systems.
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Best pubsub services
An in-depth comparison of the best pub/sub services based on scalability, reliability, performance, and cost, designed to help you choose the right solution.
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Realtime reliability: How to ensure exactly-once delivery in pub/sub systems
Discover how Ably overcomes the architectural challenges for achieving seamless exactly-once delivery with pub/sub.
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Delivery guarantees with pub/sub
Discover the different types of guarantees available in a pub/sub system, which ones matter, and how to achieve strict guarantees.
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Achieving low latency with pub/sub
Explore the importance of low latency in pub/sub systems, the obstacles to achieving it, and best practices for maintaining low latency at scale.
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What are the benefits of Pub/Sub messaging?
Explore the benefits that Pub/Sub messaging brings to the table, and how it helps simplify software development for all stakeholders.
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What you need to know about WebSockets and Pub/Sub
WebSockets and pub/sub are often mentioned in the same sentence so they must be related in some way. But what is their relationship, exactly?
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Realtime API

Realtime API

What is a realtime API?
What realtime APIs are, the different types of realtime API, how they operate, and when to use them in your applications.
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Webhooks

Pattern used in event-driven web architecture to subscribe to and proactively receive automated event-notifications.

Webhooks – A Conceptual Deep Dive
With Webhooks you can set up integration rules based on published messages or presence events emitted on channels. Find out how they work, use cases, and more.
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