Hi, I'm Srushtika, PM at Ably. I'm investigating how Ably might be able to help here with some of our existing and upcoming products. Would love to understand how folks have been using DeviceSync so far. Please feel free to reach out: https://www.linkedin.com/in/srushtika/
I'm very excited to announce the private beta of our new product — Ably Chat
We’ve had the privilege of working with a wide range of customers including global retailers, CRM vendors, sports franchises, creators, entertainers, and broadcasters - from HubSpot and Sportsbet, to 17LIVE Inc. and InvitePeople - providing them with reliable, scalable and low-latency chat.
Ably Pub/Sub is already a fantastic fit for a variety of chat use cases. But my team and I have been doing a lot of thinking about how we can better help developers to overcome the many challenges of delivering chat features to market quickly, at scale and in an economically viable way.
Ably Chat, is a suite of purpose-built APIs for a number of chat features. It is designed to meet a wide range of chat use cases, such as livestreams, in-game communication, customer support, or social interactions in SaaS products. Built on Ably's core service, it abstracts complex details to enable efficient chat architectures.
Dive straight into docs and request an invite to the beta!
Hey, I'm the PM for LiveSync. Happy to speak with you about the product — could you please send an email to [srushtika][dot][neelakantam][at][ably][dot][com]?
My team and I wanted to help developers use Ably’s Pub/Sub Channels to create multiplayer collaboration features for their app. Our first thought was to create impactful educational and onboarding resources.
But after speaking with a lot of developers, both our customers and friends externally, we recognised the need for purpose-built APIs that are optimized exactly for the payload structure, frequency of updates and end user experience uniquely anticipated for each feature.
This means less time spent by developers architecting some of the lower-level but flexible features such as channels, presence and history that we offer.
Thus came a new product “Spaces” — to help developers build collaborative spaces in their apps in just a few lines of code. Right now, it enables four main features — avatar stacks, member locations, live cursors and component locking (my personal favourite)!
Spaces is completely free to try, so please sign up for a developer account and let me know what you think.
We’ll be around to answer any questions but really hope you would check it out and share your feedback.
Right, that makes total sense for fully open source projects, but I'm particularly interested in understanding developers' perception about partly open-sourced organizations with open programs and everything but the company as a whole is commercial.
Wow! That was a super fast read :D Coincidentally, the next article will talk about just that! Make sure to keep an eye for that link.
However, the thing to keep in mind is, your own websockets server would lack some serious attributes such as scalability, message ordering etc unless you have a dedicated distributed systems engineers' team working on it!