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Simon Woolf
Simon Woolf
London
Lead software engineer of the Ably realtime backend.
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CRDTs are simpler and more common than you think
Ably engineering
14 min read

CRDTs are simpler and more common than you think

Simon Woolf
Feb 14, 2023
Channel global decoupling for region discovery
Ably engineering
16 min read

Channel global decoupling for region discovery

Simon Woolf
Jan 5, 2022
Adventures in BEAM optimization with our MQTT adapter
Ably engineering
9 min read

Adventures in BEAM optimization with our MQTT adapter

Simon Woolf
Jul 17, 2020
Ably Debugging Tales - A Mystery in Elixir
Ably engineering
8 min read

Ably Debugging Tales - A Mystery in Elixir

Simon Woolf
Jul 30, 2019
Building a distributed rate limiter that scales horizontally
Ably engineering
11 min read

Building a distributed rate limiter that scales horizontally

Simon Woolf
Jul 26, 2018
Ably MQTT adapter public beta
Ably news
3 min read

Ably MQTT adapter public beta

Simon Woolf
Mar 15, 2018
Being 'Protocol Agnostic' at Ably
Ably news
4 min read

Being 'Protocol Agnostic' at Ably

Simon Woolf
Nov 29, 2016

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