Product Information
What is Ably?
Ably is an enterprise-grade pub/sub messaging platform. We can easily and efficiently design, quickly deliver, and seamlessly scale critical real-time features directly to end users. Every day, we send billions of real-time messages to millions of users across thousands of companies. We power the apps people, organizations, and enterprises depend on every day, like Lightspeed System’s real-time device management platform for over seven million school-owned devices, Vitac’s live captioning for hundreds of millions of multilingual viewers for events like the Olympic Games, and Split’s real-time feature flagging for one trillion feature flags per month. We’re the only pub/sub platform with a suite of baked-in services to build complete realtime functionality, such as showing a driver’s live GPS location on a home-delivery app, instantly loading the most recent score when opening a sports app, and automatically handling reconnection when swapping networks. Our platform is mathematically modeled around Four Pillars of Dependability, ensuring messages don’t get lost while being delivered at low latency over a secure, reliable, and highly available global edge network. Developers from startups to industrial giants choose to build on Ably because it simplifies engineering, minimizes DevOps overhead, and increases development velocity.
How to use Ably?
Ably is an enterprise-grade pub/sub messaging platform providing developers with infrastructure to efficiently design, rapidly deliver, and seamlessly scale critical real-time functionality, ensuring messages are reliably and low-latency delivered to end-users.
Core Functions of Ably
WebSocket Streaming
Data Streaming
REST API
Protocol Adapter
Reactor Queue
Usage Scenarios of Ably
- Display real-time GPS locations of drivers in home delivery apps
- Instantly load latest scores in sports apps
- Provide a real-time device management platform for millions of school devices
- Offer real-time captions for hundreds of millions of multilingual viewers at large events like the Olympics
- Build real-time chat, dashboards, and notification features
- Create real-time collaboration environments in collaborative apps
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