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Realtime challenges for audience engagement

What's this blog post about?

Audience engagement is a crucial aspect of virtual events and online platforms, enabling participants to interact in real-time through features such as chat, Q&A sessions, polls, quizzes, and leaderboards. Realtime updates are essential for audience engagement, with technology built on event-driven architecture using the publish and subscribe pattern. Key technical challenges include ensuring message integrity, minimizing latency, maintaining availability, and achieving fault tolerance. To build a dependable realtime solution for audience engagement, it is often more cost-effective to partner with a third-party vendor like Ably, which offers scalable infrastructure and abstraction of the complexities involved in building such systems.

Company
Ably

Date published
Feb. 10, 2022

Author(s)
Jo Stichbury

Word count
1896

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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