Ably
More info
- Creator
- Matthew O'Riordan, Paddy Byers
- Founded
- 2016
- Type
- Realtime platform
- Website
- ably.com
London-based realtime platform that extends pub/sub with explicit guarantees about message ordering and recovery after a dropped connection.
Launched in 2016 by Matthew O'Riordan and Paddy Byers as a more dependable alternative to Pusher and PubNub. The pitch is precisely the stuff rivals prefer to gloss over: guaranteed ordering, exactly-once delivery and connection recovery that resends missed messages after an interruption rather than quietly dropping them.
The platform is priced per message and concurrent connection, and shows up behind live scores, financial data feeds and collaboration features — cases where a lost message costs more than a little extra infrastructure.