You use realtime communication every day. It is the simultaneous exchange of information between a sender and a receiver with almost zero latency. Internet, landlines, mobile/cell phones, instant messaging (IM), internet relay chat, videoconferencing, teleconferencing, and robotic telepresence are all examples of realtime communication systems.

With the rise of cloud-based and distributed systems, messaging solutions appear to be everywhere. Rather than direct client-server communication, messaging and event-driven architecture allow loosely coupled components to communicate with each other and results in better scalability of the system.

Here at Ably, we’ve helped many people to solve some truly interesting, and at times wacky data distribution problems. Be it helping to organise transport for the healthcare sector, or acting as one of the key communication layers on a VR platform; in more and more aspects of our lives, we’re expecting online experiences to happen in realtime. Unsurprisingly though, one key use-case reemerges every time: chat.

Turbo and ActionCable make it a snap to create Rails applications that respond to user behavior in real-time. In this article, Abiodun shows us how to use them together to create a full-featured chat application in Rails.

This post will walk through the creation of a realtime chat application with Next.js and deploying it to Vercel. You'll learn how to: Check out a running version of the app.

Website visitors are 82% more likely to convert if they’ve chatted with the business beforehand. These marketers share how to start those conversion-worthy conversations.

From personalizing your initial prompt to asking the right questions, here are some proven ways for improving the response rate from your live chat efforts.

Databox polled dozens of marketers and salespeople to find out which one does a better job at generating leads, qualifying prospects, and ultimately closing sales.