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Enrich customer experiences with realtime updates.
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Power ultra fast and reliable gaming experiences.
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Monitor and control global IoT deployments in realtime.
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THE ABLY PLATFORM
Easily power any realtime experience in your application. No complex
infrastructure to manage or provision. Just a simple API that handles
everything realtime, and lets you focus on your code.
Explore how it works
OUR EXAMPLES
* Avatar Stack
See who is connected in a digital space.
* Emoji Reactions
React with an emoji to a message.
* Activity Feed
Display a list of user actions in realtime.
* Live Charts
Visualise live metrics and data in a chart.
* Live Cursors
Track all cursors in realtime.
* Typing Indicator
See when a user is typing a message.
Explore all live examples
OUR TECHNOLOGY
* Predictable performance
A low-latency and high-throughput global network.
* Guaranteed ordering & delivery
Data is delivered - in order - even after disconnections.
* Fault tolerant infrastructure
Redundancy is built in at global and regional levels.
* High scalability & availability
Built for scale with legitimate 99.999% uptime SLAs.
* Global edge network
An edge network of 15 core routing datacenters and 205+ PoPs.
Explore Four Pillars of Dependability
* Solutions
Back
USE CASES
* Live updates, results & metrics
Deliver live updates to keep users informed.
* Chat
Deliver highly reliable chat experiences at scale.
* Virtual Events
Power engaging virtual events with realtime features.
* Multi-user virtual spaces
Build live and interactive multi-user applications.
INDUSTRY
* EdTech
Deliver interactive learning experiences.
* FinTech
Deliver personalised financial data in realtime.
* Automotive, Logistics, & Mobility
Power diagnostics, order tracking and more.
* B2B Platforms
Empower your customers with realtime solutions.
* Healthcare (HIPAA)
Provide trustworthy, HIPAA-compliant realtime apps.
* eCommerce & Retail
Enrich customer experiences with realtime updates.
* Sports, Media & Audience Engagement
Deliver engaging global realtime experiences.
* Gaming
Power ultra fast and reliable gaming experiences.
* IoT & Connected Devices
Monitor and control global IoT deployments in realtime.
SOLUTIONS
* Extend Kafka to the edge
Reliably expand Kafka’s event streaming beyond your private network.
* Asset Tracking
Track assets in realtime with a solution optimised for last mile
logistics.
* Company
Back
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WHY COMPANIES CHOOSE ABLY
* Customers
Ably supports customers across multiple industries.
* Case studies
Discover how customers are benefiting from Ably.
* Compare our tech
Choose the right realtime service.
* Partners
Ably collaborates and integrates with AWS.
* Resources
Learn more about realtime with our handy resources.
* About Ably
Find out more about Ably’s mission.
* Careers
Discover our open roles and core Ably values.
BLOG
* Building a realtime chat application using WebSockets with Angular and
Firebase
Nov 10, 2022
* The WhatsApp outage highlights our dependence on realtime technology -
but why is it so hard to get right?
Oct 26, 2022
* Scaling live experiences: Horizontal vs vertical scaling for WebSockets
Oct 26, 2022
More from our Blog
* Developers
Back
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EXPLORE
* Documentation
Technical guides to help you build with Ably.
* Quickstart guides
Documentation to help you get started quickly.
* Integrations
Find out more about Ably integrations.
* SDKs
Download an SDK to help you build realtime apps faster.
* Tutorials & Demos
Get stuck in with our hands-on resources.
* Chat apps reference guide
Learn how to build chat apps with Ably.
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* Discord
* GitHub
* Changelog
* Status
* Support & FAQs
* Pricing
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A SUITE OF SIMPLE APIS TO DEVELOP POWERFUL REALTIME EXPERIENCES
Start with pub/sub messaging that is guaranteed to deliver and automatically
translates between protocols. Then add device presence, check stream history,
and never worry about abrupt disconnections.
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EXTEND
Extend
TRANSPARENTLY AND SECURELY CONNECT YOUR CLOUD SERVICES
We provide managed integrations with other cloud services so you can deploy
best-in-class tooling across your entire stack and build event-driven
applications using the ecosystems you’re already invested in.
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WEBHOOKS
* Custom
Notify your servers over HTTP in realtime when devices become present,
channels become active, or messages are published.
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* Zapier
Trigger sophisticated workflows in realtime that connect and automate over
1,300 disparate business services.
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* IFTTT
Connect and automate business, personal, and smart home apps and devices in
realtime.
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SERVERLESS FUNCTIONS
* AWS Lambda
Serverless functions to run code whenever triggered by an event. Can be very
useful for integrating into various AWS systems.
Read the docs
* Microsoft Azure Functions
Serverless functions to run code whenever triggered by an event. Can be very
useful for integrating deeper into Microsoft Azure Cloud.
Read the docs
* Google Cloud Functions
Serverless functions to run code whenever triggered by an event. Can be very
useful for integrating into Google Cloud Platform.
Read the docs
* Cloudflare Workers
Serverless JavaScript functions deployed across Cloudflare’s edge network.
Cloudflare’s answer to serverless functions.
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STREAM PROCESSING
* AWS Kinesis
Stream into your own AWS Kinesis deployment to process, filter, or transform
realtime messages published over Ably.
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* AWS SQS
Stream into your own AWS SQS queues to process, filter, or transform realtime
messages published over Ably.
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* RabbitMQ
Stream into your own RabbitMQ deployment to process, filter, or transform
realtime messages published over Ably.
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* AMQP
Use the AMQP queuing protocol to pass on realtime messages published over
Ably for processing or transformation.
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* Apache Pulsar
Stream into your own Apache Pulsar deployment to process, filter, or
transform realtime messages published over Ably.
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DELIVER AT SCALE
Deliver at scale
UNMATCHED PERFORMANCE AT THE EDGE
Ably’s Global Edge Network means minimal latencies that let you deliver
consistent realtime experiences no matter where your users are. We operate
globally across multiple regions by default with massive global fault tolerance,
even if multiple regions go down.
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350+ millionunique end-users
307+points of presence
trillionsmonthly messages
7isolated core routing datacenters
<65msround-trip latency
RELIABILITY AND UPTIME YOU CAN TRUST
Ably's platform is architected from the ground-up to provide a resilient,
highly-available network of datacenters and edge acceleration PoPs. Plus each
datacenter can operate in isolation should issues outside of our control arise.
SERVICE STATUS OVER THE LAST 90 DAYS
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* Third-party integrations
* Multiple protocol messaging
* Streaming data sources
ABLY IS FOR
* Ably Asset Tracking
* Extend Kafka to the edge
* EdTech
* Automotive, Logistics, & Mobility
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* Healthcare
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