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Building realtime updates into your application: 3 things to consider
Blog post from Ably
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Nick Littman
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1,631
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English
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Summary
Realtime updates are crucial in situations where timeliness is key, such as sports scores, stock market fluctuations, and live traffic conditions. The value of up-to-the-second data decays rapidly as the gap grows between data availability and delivery. Successful realtime updates deliver new data points reliably and at scale, through an experience that truly feels realtime. To deliver on the promise of a realtime experience, your system needs to maintain low latency, ensure data integrity, and operate at scale.