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The State of Serverless WebSocket Infrastructure
Download our report to discover the benefits of working with a serverless WebSocket PaaS provider over building WebSocket infrastructure in-house.
How to extend Kafka pipelines to users over the public internet
Despite its strengths (low latency, scalability, durability, fault tolerance), it’s important to highlight that Kafka is not a proxy for millions of client devices. So, the question is, how do you connect your Kafka pipeline to end-users at the network edge in realtime?
An event-driven architecture pattern for live in-app audience engagement features at scale
In this free starter kit, we teach you how to build your own live multiplayer quiz. You'll get tutorials, code repo, demo and assets.
Five WebSocket Challenges to Building Audience Engagement Features at Scale
Download Ably's Five WebSocket challenges whitepaper to deep dive into some aspects to consider when designing for audience engagement using the WebSocket protocol at a scale that supports thousands or even millions of concurrent connections.
Kafka for Realtime Mobile Banking
Learn about extending your Kafka pipeline to end-users at the network edge, for realtime mobile banking apps.
The WebSocket Handbook
Learn about the core building blocks of the WebSocket technology and discover the benefits of event-driven architectures with WebSockets.
How Genius Sports delivers realtime data to their customers’ frontend at speed and at scale
Genius Sports used Ably to built a high availability realtime event data streaming system.
Ably's Four Pillars of Dependability
Our mathematically modelled approach to system design guarantees critical functionality at scale by guaranteeing message ordering and delivery without sacrificing latencies, fault tolerance, or service availability.
Ably for extending Kafka to the edge
Building an Internet-facing messaging layer between Kafka and client devices is can be highly resource consuming. Ably is an edge messaging platform purpose-built for speed and scale. This paper sumarises the benefits of using Ably to extend Kafka to end users over the internet.
Ably Asset Tracking
Capturing reliable location data and transmitting it in realtime is a time-consuming and expensive problem to solve for app builders.
Ably 101: Serverless WebSockets at Scale
Ably's CTO gives a technical overview of how our Serverless WebSockets platform works.
A RedMonk Conversation: Serverless WebSockets and the Serverless Stack
Listen in as our CEO, Matthew O'Riordan, talks to RedMonk co-founder, James Governor, about the rise of realtime, the power of WebSockets, the value of product-led business models and serverless.
Using the Ably platform at scale
This data sheet explores how applications can be structured so as to avoid limits being a problem in practice.
Connect Kafka to client devices at the edge
Learn how you can stream Apache Kafka events over WebSockets to millions of web, mobile, and IoT clients with Ably's help.
Ably: trusted by our customers to deliver realtime solutions
Learn how Ably supports our customers in providing the ultimate live, engaging and interactive experiences for their end users.
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