Ably was proud to celebrate our 8th birthday this year, and we’ve enjoyed reflecting on some of our achievements since launching in 2016.
When we launched, we believed that realtime interactions would underpin our everyday digital experiences, rather than just augment them. And so we set out on a mission to build the definitive realtime experience platform. With a focus on dependability, we have made technology decisions to provide performance, data integrity, reliability, and availability - at scale.
And when we say "at scale", we mean that Ably has been designed to scale limitlessly - and can react to changes and elastically scale beyond instant surge capacity.
It is this obsession with dependability that has led us to be trusted by 1000s of brands to power their realtime experiences across the globe including: HubSpot, NASCAR, Split and Genius Sports. Whilst working with them, we are proud to have delivered on our guarantees, whilst hitting some incredible milestones.
How we have made this possible
Ably is mathematically modelled and architected to overcome limitations of message ordering and delivery without sacrificing latencies, fault tolerance, or service availability.
We can transparently define and measure these operating boundaries of Ably, which we organize under our Four Pillars of Dependability. Designing around these pillars allows us to remove much of the uncertainty and application complexity usually present when developing apps for realtime.
Looking ahead at Ably
Today, our range of application building blocks and integrations enable developers to create the live experiences that users and businesses demand. From live chat to data broadcast, collaborative UXs and notifications, our SDKs unlock innovation - with no infrastructure to build.
So what’s next? We’re working on ways to make the dev experience even better - offering greater flexibility in how they can build the realtime experiences they want - whether it is utilising low level pub/sub APIs, state management services or high level application building blocks.
Watch this space for a raft of new product announcements and features!
