Ably provides a suite of APIs to build, extend, and deliver powerful event-driven applications, enabling organizations to offload the complexity of business-critical realtime data synchronization. It powers synchronized digital experiences in realtime for over 250 million devices across 80 countries each month and is on track to reach one billion devices per month by 2023.

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Ably provides a suite of APIs to build, extend, and deliver powerful digital experiences in realtime for more than 250 million devices across 80 countries each month. Organizations like HubSpot and Verizon, depend on Ably’s platform to offload the growing complexity of business-critical realtime data synchronization at global scale.

Our everyday digital experiences are in the midst of a realtime revolution. Whether attending an event in a virtual venue, receiving realtime financial information, or monitoring live car performance data – consumers simply expect realtime digital experiences as standard. As a result, synchronized data in realtime is business critical for many organizations. But building homegrown realtime synchronization capabilities is complex and costly. Ably simplifies this.

In the same way that content delivery networks simplify and underpin large parts of the internet, Ably is the invisible platform and infrastructure layer powering the realtime revolution on a global scale. As the de facto platform for developers at organizations of all sizes, Ably is on track to reach one billion devices per month by 2023.

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Max Tatton-Brown

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Dawn Capital

How easy is it to show who is present in an in-game chat app? 🤔

In his latest post in a series on in-game chat, frontend developer Nate Eagle explains how to do just that with Ably’s React Hooks. Find out more. 👇

Have you signed up for our upcoming webinar with NASCAR?

On 31st January, we’re sitting down with Chad Larter, Senior Technical Operations Director to discuss the industry-leading NASCAR Drive platform.🏆🚥

This unique in-cockpit camera experience generates 1.3TB of footage each race. Naturally, processing and distributing that data to over 80 million global fans isn’t easy.

If you’re not already registered, sign up to hear how NASCAR Drive was built – and the challenges the team solved along the way. 🏁  https://hubs.la/Q02g5JlH0

Looking to build a live customer chat? 💬

If so, you might be wondering where to start. In this tutorial, Vera Agiang explains how to combine #React and Ably to achieve just that, including:

⭐ - What tools you need to build the live chat
⭐ - Step-by-step: How to build a live chat pop-up in React
⭐ - The code you need get started

Read the full tutorial to find out more.

AG Grid is the leading choice for developers looking to add data grids to JavaScript applications. And there are plenty of good reasons why:

⭐ - Wide range of fully-customizable features
⭐ - Integrates with all major JavaScript frameworks
⭐ - No third-party dependencies

But if you’re looking to create a realtime, collaborative data grid, you’ll have to combine AG Grid with Ably’s Spaces. In our recent tutorial, we explain how to do just that. 

Read the full guide to access the code to start building. 👉

What feature is used by Miro, Notion, and others to keep users engaged and informed? 🤔

Answer: shared schedules. 📆

If you want to easily add shared schedules to your app, one great option is Bryntum. It offers simple components that can be easily added without extensive coding.

But here’s the challenge: If you want those schedules to update in realtime, you’ll need a tool like Ably. So how do you bring the two together?

That’s what Tom Camp discusses in our latest tutorial. Read the full post to find out how to create shared live schedules with Bryntum and Ably. https://vist.ly/vyfx

Are you hosting a realtime analytics platform? 📈

If so, there’s a good chance you’re already using Kafka through Confluent Cloud. After all, it’s one of the best ways to manage and stream fast-moving event data.

And if you want to distribute that data out to your clients’ devices in realtime📱, there’s no better combination than Confluent Kafka, and Ably.

So it’s only natural that we teamed up with Confluent to explain how to do just that...

To find out more, check out this step-by-step guide from Solutions Engineers Shashwat Johari and Nick Littman.

Racing fans are treated to a unique, industry-leading sports experience through the NASCAR Drive platform. 👇🏎️

Through an in-cockpit camera feed, viewers can watch the race from the driver’s perspective. But streaming 1.3TB of data each race to over 80 million fans isn’t an easy job.

So how does NASCAR do it?

In our upcoming webinar, we sit down with Senior Technical Operations Director Chad Larter to discuss:
🔧 - The challenges of delivering realtime data to millions of fans – even during unpredictable surges
🔧 - The technical solution NASCAR uses to collect and distribute camera footage in realtime 
🔧 - How the team improved data access, feature set, and engagement by bringing the solution in-house

Sign up for the webinar to hear Chad’s story and join the live Q&A. 🏁 https://vist.ly/viw6

It’s that time of year again. 🙌

As we settle into the new year, we’re looking ahead to 2024’s biggest React trends. From React Server Components to an ever-diversifying landscape of frameworks, the latest in the world of state management - and more, we’ve got all the updates for 2024. 

Read the full blog to find out more about these trends and how to get ahead.

Four key takeaways from our chat with InvitePeople's CTO and Co-Founder Erik Gullestad: 👇

✅ Live online and hybrid events rely on realtime experiences.
✅ Predicting demand for live events is usually difficult - and sometimes impossible.
✅ You can build a fast, secure, and scalable realtime live event platform in as little as two weeks.
✅ Ably helps small dev teams like InvitePeople focus on their product – not WebSockets.

Want to hear more from Erik? In this latest video, he chats with Ably’s Alex Booker to discuss his journey, the challenges of delivering realtime events at scale, and how they rely on Ably to get it right. Watch the full video to find out more: https://hubs.la/Q02fRhzv0

We’ve collated some of our favorite free realtime data sources in transport, weather, and currency categories.

So, if you’re looking to build an app with realtime data but unsure which data sources are available, start here.

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