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Why elasticity is essential for sports, media, and entertainment apps delivering realtime updates

What's this blog post about?

Elasticity is the ability of software infrastructure to expand or contract in response to fluctuating usage, particularly crucial for sports, media, and entertainment apps that experience rapid growth and contraction based on events, trends, and news. Realtime updates systems pose unique challenges to achieving elasticity due to their resource-intensive nature and dramatic user fluctuations during major events. Elasticity is more important in realtime contexts as any downtime can disrupt the "live" experience promised by such features. Strategies for effective realtime update scalability include manual and automatic approaches, with emphasis on scalability, reliability, security, and cost management. Ably offers a data broadcast solution that ensures capacity and availability while maintaining high levels of scalability and elasticity to meet users' real-time expectations.

Company
Ably

Date published
July 26, 2023

Author(s)
Ably

Word count
1012

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Language
English


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