November 2020 Summaries

Ably, a cloud messaging platform, has recently won two 2020 Devportal Awards for Best API Business Model and Best New DX Innovation. The Devportal Awards recognize the achievements of developer portals and their API documentation. These wins follow Ably's previous victory at the 2020 API Awards. Ably empowers developers to build realtime functionality into applications, simplifying engineering and minimizing DevOps overhead.

Ably, a company providing infrastructure for real-time applications, has had a long-standing partnership with AWS. They have integrated their services with AWS's offerings, including supporting the AWS marketplace, having a dedicated Serverless offering, being part of the AWS partner network (APN), and offering AWS integrations. This partnership has been beneficial for Ably's customers, providing them with convenient ways to procure Ably's services and easier integration into their existing AWS stacks. Recently, Ably was invited to give a keynote address at SaaStock by AWS, sharing insights on how this partnership can impact a startup's global go-to-market expansion strategy. Ably is open to discussions about how their AWS offering and partnership can benefit others and is interested in developing new technical partnerships. They also emphasize their capability in building dependable real-time applications with easy-to-use APIs.

Exactly-once delivery is a desirable message guarantee in distributed pub/sub systems, ensuring that each message is delivered precisely once. Ably, a realtime pub/sub messaging platform, provides exactly-once guarantees by acting as the broker in data streaming pipelines and offering capabilities such as idempotent publishing and connection state recovery. The platform ensures fault tolerance through regional and global redundancy, enabling it to continue operations even if components fail without sacrificing quality of service. Ably supports various protocols for real-time subscriptions and integrations with other systems, providing exactly-once guarantees as long as the platforms and services receiving messages support an idempotent interface.