High-scale, high-frequency messaging and burst activity can lead to significant costs and performance challenges for realtime applications. Trying to solve for these spikes places additional cognitive load on development teams, slowing down development times. And because of this, all too often, developers have to shelve adding new features to their product. To solve this issue, we've introduced a powerful and simple-to-use cost optimization feature into Ably Pub/Sub: server-side message batching.

The Australian Open (AO) is one of the world’s premier annual sporting events. According to Tennis Australia, the 2024 edition - held over three weeks - reached over 558 million unique global viewers, a 57% increase from the previous year, and accumulated more than 2.17 billion cumulative viewers, up 24%. The event also attracted a record-breaking 1,110,657 fans to Melbourne Park.

We're happy to announce the release of message editing and deletion in our Javascript and React SDKs and within our NEW iOS and Android SDKs for Ably Chat. These additions will enable the development of richer chat experiences and simplify the development of cross-platform chat applications.

In light of the recent deprecation of MongoDB Atlas Device Sync (ADS), developers are seeking alternative solutions to synchronize on-device data with cloud databases. Ably LiveSync offers a potential alternative and can replace some of ADS’s functionality, enabling realtime synchronization of database changes to devices at scale.