February 2018 Summaries

Ably is a serverless WebSocket-based realtime messaging platform that integrates with various third-party services such as AWS Lambda Functions, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, IFTTT, Cloudflare Workers, and Zapier. It simplifies complex realtime engineering by handling issues like ordering, rate limiting, buffering, and load balancing. Ably's serverless approach allows developers to add realtime features without learning new platforms or managing infrastructure capacity. The platform provides cloud infrastructure and APIs for powering and scaling realtime features in applications or distributing data streams as realtime APIs.