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Nice. I have spoken to literally 30+ developers who have hit these exact problems. I would have though, I am the co-founder of Ably and we were doing product validation

Oh, I'll take a look :/

An illustrated WebSocket history by the author of WebSocket.org

Ably’s LiveSync ( https://ably.com/livesync ) is conceptually designed to solve exactly this problem by providing a database connector that subscribes to changes committed using th…

Wow, that didn't last long! This can only be an acquihire given Sunil worked at Cloudflare before.

Quite frankly whilst I have no love for Meta, if they are willing to spend stupendous amounts of money to open source their AI models, yet prevent use of this by companies who reac…

I am one of the co-founders of https://ably.com . We have built a Serverless websockets platform that is near infinitely scalable and designed to handle the complexity you’re descr…

Been using this site for years, it's a far better way of consuming HN IMHO

Hello everyone, this is a new post from the Ably Engineering series. This time, we talk about a very important topic in cloud computing: autoscaling. Hope you like it and let me kn…

Awesome article. The author has absolutely nailed the issues one faces with distributed systems under stress.

I understand the SOC2 requirement, which is why we're SOC2 compliant. A long and painful process, but one that has opened up opportunities like the one you said would otherwise req…

Thanks for the explanation, useful to know.

Feel free to sign up for an Ably account and we'll help support your project with a community package, we love what you're doing!

Our customers use Ably across such a diverse set of use cases, but here's a few: 1. Sports events streaming live updates (see https://ausopen.com/live-scores , we are streaming liv…

That's surprising to hear, we definitely don't see anywhere near the order of 5-10%, at best on order of magnitude less. Out of interest, what geography and industries are you oper…

Yup, true, although tokens should be ephemeral so less of a risk. Authenticating inline over the Websocket connection is valid too, but it does expose the socket connections to sli…

Yup, and it supports Ably too, see https://js.m-ld.org/#ably-remotes ! Matt, Ably co-founder

We are monitoring it closely and super excited about what WebTransport will provide, which is both a more reliable and in many cases more performant transport. However, much like W…