A recent GartnerⓇ report recognizes Ably as playing a critical role in powering meaningful online experiences by extending event-driven architectures to the edge. Within the spectrum of event-driven architecture use cases, Ably reaches end-user devices with last-mile connectivity: it’s at the heart of what we do. Ably is edge messaging!
We're excited to announce the Ably VS Code extension! With this extension you can manage your Ably applications directly from VS Code.
The Ably Kafka Connector has a raft of new enhancements, and is now available in a full general availability (GA) release. Developers now have the option to use pattern-based mapping rules to enable streaming of data from many Kafka topics to many Ably channels - ideal for chat solutions, live sports updates, live streaming, broadcasting notifications and alerts.
At its most simple, user presence represents a user’s online or offline status and is typically used to show whether a user is available, for example, on a chat system. Here are some other examples of where it’s used: Presence is a key feature of live apps and services and a primary element of the user experience in audience engagement. It is a great way to build a sense of immediacy between participants; knowing who else is online builds a sense of inclusion and interaction.
Ably is a distributed pub/sub edge messaging platform that acts as the broker in realtime data streaming pipelines. Publishers send messages to Ably, and we deliver those messages to subscribers. We guarantee: In this article, we describe how Ably can make such guarantees in the face of network outages. We cover the redundancy built into our server clusters and the design we have used to ensure message ordering and exactly-once delivery.
Here at Ably, we're excited to announce our participation and Silver sponsorship of the Kafka Summit 2022, taking place between 25-26 April. The Kafka Summit is the only dedicated technical conference for the Apache Kafka® Community, and it's a great opportunity for anyone building large-scale event-driven systems to learn and share ideas. It's also the perfect event for us to launch the general availability of the Ably Kafka Connector.
Ably provides an edge messaging service to deliver data at low latency and power live and collaborative applications on millions of simultaneously connected devices. Our platform runs tens of millions of concurrent, long-running WebSocket and HTTP streaming connections and reaches more than 300 million devices across 80 countries each month. Ably is on track to power realtime digital experiences for one billion devices per month by 2024.
WebRTC (Web Real-time Communication) is an industry effort to enhance the web browsing model. It allows browsers to directly exchange realtime media with other browsers in a peer-to-peer fashion through secure access to input peripherals like webcams and microphones. Traditional web architecture is based on the client-server paradigm, where a client sends an HTTP request to a server and gets a response containing the information requested. In contrast, WebRTC allows the exchange of data among N peers.
The timeline of commercial computing can be roughly summarized as: buying computers → renting computers → renting partial computers (virtual servers) → renting partial computers for very short periods (cloud computing).
If you are a Kotlin developer, there is a high chance you already know that coroutines are the new way of composing your asynchronous, concurrent and parallel workflows. It is also the recommended solution by Google to use for asynchronous programming in Android. In this blog post I will discuss the importance of asynchronous architecture. I will also explain how I combined Ably and Kotlin coroutines to develop a multiplayer game room SDK.
