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Stadion specialises in creating immersive fan experiences through its industry leading digital publishing platform. Find out why they chose Ably to meet their exacting realtime requirements when it came to platform performance, scalability and reliability, enabling them to realise their growth ambitions and to deliver seamless 'first-to-know' realtime experience to fans.

Realtime Fan Engagement with NASCAR and Ably My journey in sports technology began with Formula One in the pre-internet era, when race car data was just beginning to shape the sport. What we considered cutting-edge telemetry then would barely register compared to today's standards, where a single NASCAR race generates over a terabyte of data from cars emitting 100+ data points 120 times every second. That's why NASCAR's collaboration with Ably brings my career full circle. What excites me most is seeing how far we've come - from struggling to capture basic telemetry to now delivering real-time, engaging experiences to fans worldwide. It's a perfect example of how sports technology can turn complex technical challenges into seamless fan experiences. I'm grateful to Matthew O'Riordan and the Ably team for letting me be part of this journey back to my racing roots. 1️⃣ Data At Racing Speed One terabyte of data per race transformed into real-time fan experiences, proving massive data can be managed at NASCAR speeds. 2️⃣ Smart Data Filtering NASCAR's success comes from intelligent data reduction - from 120 updates per second to just 2 - keeping the fan experience smooth and efficient. 3️⃣ Second Screen Evolution Drive platform turns raw racing data into a personalized viewing experience, letting fans follow their favorite drivers throughout the race. 4️⃣ Infrastructure Freedom Switching to Ably freed NASCAR's team from managing servers, letting them focus on innovation instead of infrastructure. 5️⃣ Authentic Connection By sharing the same data feed used by race teams, NASCAR creates a genuine connection between fans and the sport they love. #realtime #sportstech #scale

Looking for a Realm replacement for device sync? We have partnered with MongoDB to ensure that MongoDB customers can continue to deliver the device sync capabilities their customers depend on. The solution: a MongoDB Connector for the Ably LiveSync product. ✅ Keep frontend clients in sync with the true state of your MongoDB database. ✅ Fan-out updates to billions of clients in realtime, reliably and at low latency. ✅ Seamlessly integrate into your existing tech stack. Learn how it works 👉 https://hubs.la/Q02_Bchc0

When Onedio set out to bring an HQ-trivia app – Oyna Kazan – to market, it set itself some ambitious targets. It wanted to slash development time, bringing the product to market within a month, and it wanted to attract a million concurrent users in its first go-to-market phase. Find out why Onedio chose Ably to help them get their solution to market super-fast. 👇

For globally distributed data centers, minimizing latency is essential. Knowing this, Ably software developers adopt an evidence-based approach to system design that guarantees business-critical realtime digital experiences at scale. In our blog, we look at the journey our software developers have taken to understand the way TCP stacks are configured, and how to optimize them for lower latency. Along the way, there were some interesting, and sometimes surprising, discoveries. Read the blog here 👇

Looking to build a chat app that scales? Choosing the right pricing model is just as important as choosing the right features. Here’s what we cover in our latest blog: Why MAU pricing might not work for dynamic apps with spiky traffic. How per-minute consumption aligns costs with actual resource usage. How Ably’s pricing offers transparency, scalability, and flexibility for modern chat apps. Read more about optimizing chat costs and scaling effectively 👉 https://hubs.la/Q02_5ypT0

Choosing a chat API? The pricing model you pick could make or break your app's scalability and cost efficiency. Most providers stick to industry norms like the Monthly Active Users (MAU) model —but are these models really built for high-scale applications? In our latest article, we break down: - The pros and cons of MAU and per-minute consumption pricing. - How per-minute consumption pricing works in practice - Why Ably’s pricing is built for scalable, cost-effective chat apps. Explore chat API pricing here 👉 https://hubs.la/Q02_5ypT0

At Ably, we’re committed to building products that solve tough technical challenges and help our customers deliver exceptional user experiences.  The team’s hard work and innovation are at the heart of our success, and we’re proud to be powering brands like NASCAR as a result. We’ve partnered with NASCAR on their Drive platform, which streams live race data to fans worldwide. Managing the massive data volumes—over 1TB per event— posed challenges for their long-polling-based architecture when coupled with the unpredictable nature of races. That’s where Ably stepped in. Our WebSockets-based platform provided NASCAR with the predictability, reliability, and scalability they needed to handle data surges. By leveraging Ably, NASCAR was able to: ✅ Optimize costs while handling huge data volumes ✅ Scale seamlessly and add new features ✅ Deliver a globally distributed, low-latency fan experience And during the 2024 Daytona 500, Ably powered the broadcast of 370M+ messages to 56K+ concurrent users—without breaking a sweat. Read more about their success story here: https://hubs.la/Q02-WCPl0 Carlo De Marchis, Chad Larter, Ben Miller, Madeleine Quinn, Faye McClenahan, Hannah Smallman, Kathryn Williams

In addition to our existing push notification support for iOS and Android devices, Ably Pub/Sub now enables web push notifications, streamlining the process of sending notifications across all major platforms. Crucially, it means you can send web push notifications directly to users devices, whether or not an application is open and running, with a single call to our unified API. Ably does all the heavy lifting in the background to deliver messages reliably and instantly, providing all the features you need to support push notifications. Find out more 👉

Ably handles massive amounts of data throughput and concurrent connections for many customers, while maintaining a highly reliable and available service, with a 5x9s uptime guarantee. With no scale ceiling, we sometimes face novel internet scale problems, such as breaching the limits of AWS services! 🚀 The reality of that offering is that we need to work with both our customers and service providers to understand requirements and work together to push the boundaries of what’s possible. Read our latest blog post to discover how we overcame a recent scale challenge with AWS - and 5 key takeaways that you could apply to your provider relationships that can help set you and your customers up for success. Here are some of the takeaways highlighted: 🌟 Establish communication channels with provider support teams 🌟 Leverage support plans and escalation procedures for timely issue 🌟 Collaborate with provider's technical experts to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues