November 2023 Summaries

Party.IO is a new Socket.IO backend for PartyKit that enables real-time, bidirectional and event-based communication between web clients and servers. It leverages Cloudflare's worldwide edge network to automatically scale and load balance across the globe, ensuring low latency for users. Deploying a Socket.IO server with PartyKit is simple and can handle thousands of concurrent users. By default, it uses a single party instance for message coordination, but this can be adjusted by passing a `partyID` in the query parameter to instantiate a new backend close to the user.

Stately, a company founded by David Khourshid, is revolutionizing visual app logic construction and collaboration through its state machine-based framework. The company's visual editor allows users to create app logic visually with drag-and-drop functionality, collaborate on projects, simulate logic, and generate code from text descriptions using AI. Stately Sky, a service that runs at the edge, enables real-time application building without back-end coding. It works alongside the visual editor, allowing users to deploy app logic in just a few clicks. The company has partnered with PartyKit for orchestration and deployment needs, leveraging its multiplayer capabilities and secure, scalable infrastructure solutions. Stately Sky aims to make it easy for developers to build various types of applications using state machines in the cloud.