February 2017 Summaries

In February 2017, a blog post highlighted issues with AWS status reports, which were found to be misleading during an incident involving network failures in one of their Northern California datacenters. The author claimed that the AWS status dashboard reported everything as "operating normally" despite severe network issues affecting their realtime platform. They criticized Amazon for not being upfront about the severity and timeline of resolution, suggesting that they should err on the side of caution when reporting such incidents. The author also shared how Ably handled the situation by providing honest updates to their customers and keeping a record of the incident.

Ably is not just a pub/sub messaging platform or a message queuing platform; it's an open and expansive protocol-agnostic interoperable platform that liberates realtime data. It supports various protocols like AMQP, STOMP, MQTT, REST, etc., and allows data to flow freely from any source, be consumed by any device, and streamed out to any endpoint. Today, Ably officially launches the Reactor Queues, which are traditional message queues that allow realtime data published on pub/sub channels to be consumed in a scalable, resilient, and efficient way.