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Message Delta Compression: Bandwidth-efficient messaging

Reduce your bandwidth costs, improve end-user latencies, and simplify development by sending only the changes between messages each time there,??s an update, instead of resending the entire message.

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Message Delta Compression

A way to subscribe to a channel so that present messages contain only the difference (i.e. the delta) from the previous message.

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ChannelOptions API

To access this feature, clients must specify parameters on a per channel basis through the ChannelOptions API, available in our 1.2 Client Library SDKs.

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Live demo: Delta Compression in action with real transit data

A real-world example demonstrating the difference in message size with and without Message Delta Compression.

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Engineering Deep Dive: Practical Guide to Diff Algorithms

Diff algorithms are the basis of many everyday developer tools. But there''s limited knowledge on the subject.

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Hi again,

I hope you found some time to check out the onboarding guide I sent a couple of weeks ago.

I was wondering if you've got two minutes to give me your honest opinion about your overall developer experience with Ably so far?

It's my job to make sure developers like yourself have the best experience possible with Ably. We work pretty hard to make sure our documentation is extensive, that our tutorials are well-structured, and that our dashboards are actually useful to you.

But we simply can't know how to improve without talking to the developers like you using our resources and APIs to build new applications.

If you've got two minutes there's two ways you can help me improve Ably's developer resources and experience:

Fill out this feedback form or simply reply to this email with your thoughts about your experience with our docs, tutorials, website, and overall service
Add us to your stack on Stackshare and let other developers know why you use Ably.

We take our developers and their feedback very seriously so you'd really be helping us improve Ably for yourself and other developers.

Best,
Srushtika Neelakantam
Developer Advocate
Ably Realtime

Company News

Removal of non-inclusive terminology from Ably codebases

To further support global racial justice, we''re removing uses of "master", "slave" and other terminology from our software that has the potential to legitimise and perpetuate racist and other non-inclusive culture. The most immediate impact will be renaming "master" branches to "main".

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Product Updates

Why Ably integrates with functions instead of delivering them

A common requirement in realtime apps is to insert business logic into a message processing pipeline. Rather than offering our own functions, Ably supports these use-cases by providing a reliable gateway to invoke cloud functions or further process messages via the best available cloud services.

4 min read

Single Sign-On (SSO) available for enterprise accounts in Early Access Program

Single sign-on (SSO) allows you to sign in to the Ably dashboard using a single credential and sign in flow. This is more secure as Ably access can be controlled internally to your company. We've implemented SSO using SAML. Contact us to start using SSO.

Fun projects built on Ably

Build a peer-to-peer realtime app with Ably

Learn how to build a basic peer-to-peer Static Web App using Ably. This basic demo can be built upon to make games, chat apps, and basically any kind of communication where you'd rather not have to configure a central server. We even built our own version of multiplayer bingo using this demo: Ablingo.

Building a scalable multiplayer Flappy Bird game using Ably

In this code-along video Ably Dev Advocate, Srushtika Neelakantam, shows us how to build a multiplayer game of Flappy Bird that you can play online with anyone. Along the way, we learn about the various networking strategies and realtime messaging concepts to build scalable multiplayer games over WebSockets while using Ably.

Engineering Team

Adventures in BEAM optimization with Ably's MQTT protocol adapter

Ably''s Lead Distributed Systems Engineer takes us on a journey of obscure settings, red herrings, and poll vs. epoll through Elixir and Erlang, and shares lessons learned from hunting down an obscure setting in the Erlang VM.

7 min read

An introduction to AMQP (esp. 0-9-1)

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is actually two different and incompatible messaging protocols with common lineage, but with divergent topologies and scopes. We break down the differences.

3 min read

Catch Ably at upcoming events

Taming the rising Complexity of Event-driven APIs

At API Conference Ably's CEO, Matthew O'riordan, explored the often unforeseen complexities involved in both publishing and consuming event-driven APIs as adoption is increasing massively.

Going AsyncAPI: The Good, The Bad, and The Awesome

Ben Gamble, Ably's Chief Developer Advocate, will be sharing the good, bad, and awesome aspects of building Async API into Ably's open data hub: The Ably Hub. ASC 2020 takes place September 9th-10th.

Build your own IoTshirt

With a bit of JS and soldering, Ably Developer Advocate Jo Baletti will show the world how to create an IoTshirt that responds to the music you're listening to. CityJS Conference takes place September 14th-18th.

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Hey Aiden,

I''m Srushtika, I look after Developer Relations at Ably Realtime. It''s awesome to have you on board :D

It looks like you''ve recently started trying out Ably so I thought I'd reach out and say hi. I''m a fellow developer so I''m not here to sell you anything - don''t worry! I just wanted to share some developer resources that''ll make your integration with Ably much smoother.

I''ve put together a quick onboarding guide that''ll help you understand some core realtime concepts, run you through Ably''s terminology, and show you the most important Ably features and products so you can quickly get up and running.

The aim of the onboarding guide is to introduce you to Ably so you feel comfortable building your realtime apps with our platform and also make the right architectural choices for a production-ready realtime application.

If you have any questions at all at any time along the way, you can reach out to me directly by replying to this email. I''ll be sure to get back to you.

Best,
Srushtika Neelakantam
Developer Advocate
Ably Realtime

P.S. I love to promote the cool projects people build with Ably so if you''re working on something awesome and want some extra spotlight, just drop me a line. We can talk about some exclusive dev offers, promoting your app, and of course free Ably swag \o/

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Welcome to the Ably developer community

As an engineer building realtime apps, you'll be glad to know Ably's APIs and cloud network simplify the most complex aspects of realtime engineering: performance, reliability, and data integrity.

Get started right away

Access your API keys to create your first realtime app. Then you might want to:

	Check our QuickStart Guide
	Download one of our 40+ SDKs
	Look at a couple of Tutorials
	Read our Blogs and Concetps

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Build rich realtime experiences with ably

The world of realtime engineering is vast. Here are just a few things you can power with Ably:

Chat, collaboration, VoIP.

Multi-occupant chat rooms, live collaboration, comments, and more.

Multiplayer gaming.

Multi-occupant chat rooms, live collaboration, comments, and more.

IoT deployments.

Power and control IoT devices across health, robotics, smart home automation.

Realtime updates.

Deliver live GPS updates, power on-demand platforms, notify your users.

View more in our Showcase

APIs for everything you need

Channels

Pub/sub messaging APIs. User and device presence, message history, token auth, message ordering, and more.

Build a realtime app in no time

Push Notifications

A simple, unified API to reliably deliver native iOS and Android push notifications with just a few lines of code.

Add push notifications to your app

Protocol Adapters

APIs to stream over protocols like WebSockets, MQTT, SSE. Plus support for Pusher and PubNub protocols to ease migration.

Build with protocols of your choice

Third-party integrations

APIs to integrate with your external systems. Use custom WebHooks or ready-made integrations for cloud services like AWS and Zapier.

Integrate with existing systems

Distribute data streams to devs

Deploy, manage, and distribute data streams to third party developers - so they can consume and integrate those data streams into their own apps.

Create your first realtime AP

Free streaming data

Under Ably's Open Data Streaming Programme, find and consume free, open source streaming data sources. It's the GitHub of data streams for apps.

Check out free data streams

Questions?

If you have any questions - no matter if they're technical or commercial - our support team are always happy to help.

Contact us

Company News

Ably secures $7M funding to set a new standard in realtime messaging

Ably has closed a $7M Series A funding round. This funding enables us to deliver on our mission to provide the new standard of realtime messaging infrastructure at the edge required for a connected future.

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Ably solidarity statement for race equality globally

We at Ably are humbled by, and stand in solidarity with, those who are protesting for global racial justice. We are realising that silence, ignorance and apathy are forms of racism just as much as hate is. Read a statement written by our CTO Paddy Byers.

1 min read

Product Updates

Message Delta Compression: Bandwidth-efficient realtime messaging

Message Delta Compression reduces the bandwidth required to transmit realtime messages by sending only the changes from the previous message to subscribers each time there's an update, instead of the entire message.

7 min read

Two-factor authentication (2FA) available in Early Access Program

Two-factor authentication (2FA) adds an additional layer of security to your account by requiring more than just a password to log in. Good news: it''s now available for you to try as part of our Early Access program.

2 min read

Fun projects built on Ably

Building a realtime multiplayer browser game in less than a day

This four-part article series steps you through an implementation of a realtime multiplayer game of space invaders with Phaser3 and Ably Realtime. Along the way, you'll understand the architecture, system design, and networking protocols behind this, and also see the caveats of building multiplayer browser-based games.

9 min read

Tamago-Train, the Tube Station Manager game with Realtime data from TFL

A love letter to Tamagotchis and underground trains to play out your pixelated platform controller fantasies. Built with Javascript, Express.js and the Obvserver pattern with realtime data from the Ably Hub control game mechanics. All without polling a REST API.

9 min read

Engineering Team

Implementing Delta compression on a globally distributed system

There's limited knowledge on the subject of deltas across the developer community. In this article, we share our research and provide systematic knowledge on the subject of diff algorithms that could be useful to implementers of diff/delta/patch functionality.

9 min read

Cassandra counter columns: nice in theory, hazardous in practice

Apache Cassandra is trusted at internet-scale and designed to scale without limits, which is why we use Cassandra for our persistent storage of messages. After a series of incidents over three evenings, something happened to seriously disrupt our Cassandra installation. Had Cassandra lost our trust?

9 min read