Ably

“The integration process was smooth and easy. We benefited from helpful and informative customer service, good documentation and readily available answers to all the questions we had. This helped get our product to market super-fast.”

“Ably’s support during the initial, high-risk stages is really what let us bring this product to market as quickly as we did. Working with Ably felt as if we were part of the same company, navigating unknowns and collaborating on product improvements together. Ably’s technology and customer service allowed us to rest assured that having hundreds of thousands of users for a brand-new product - right at the initial stages - did not constitute a business risk.”

“Even when we had a 10 times spike in traffic, our servers were calm. With Ably we are in safe hands, we don’t have to worry at all.”

“We didn’t notice anything! The servers were really calm, which is a very good thing.”

“Ably was easy to work with – documentation was really helpful and direct contact with your developers made reaction times really quick.”

“Ably was super-helpful and has some excellent documentation. I got the APIs working and I’m not a developer, so if I can, anyone can. Overall, even with a super-cautious approach we had Ably live on our production system in less than two months. For a system handling business critical data, that is quite an achievement.”

“Thanks to Ably, now we don’t have to deal with the hardware, the rising costs and the stress. The core infrastructure for delivering live sports data to our customers is Ably. We sleep easier at night knowing it can be relied on for consistent low latency and message integrity at scale.”

““Without Ably’s scaling management, we simply couldn’t afford that level of connections.””

““Virtual gifting is a key feature for us. When a fan sends a gift to a streamer, we broadcast it to all the users in the streamer room. This encourages others to gift too. This would have been much harder to achieve without the Ably platform.””

““With Ably taking care of the infrastructure, we can focus our efforts on our company goals by adding new features to enrich the live streaming experience and make our users happy.””

“Partnering with Ably was a game-changer for us. We were able to enhance our platform's capabilities rapidly and efficiently, ensuring a top-tier experience for our users. Ably's support and reliable performance have been instrumental in our continued growth and success.”

“It struck us how extremely patient Ably were with our demanding requirements, the level of rigour we require in the testing and outcomes before being confident to proceed, and the documentation and developer experience was spoken very highly of, from even our most difficult to please engineers!”

“By choosing to partner with Ably, we were able to deliver a high quality outcome in a frankly impressive timeframe, and free up our delivery teams earlier to focus on other initiatives. It’s a testament to the strength of Ably’s offering how much of our time with them is spent discussing other potential use cases rather than the current implementation.”

““If we look at the quality of what we deliver and how fast we deliver it, it’s so much better than we had before. We have never, ever looked back.””

““We knew that WebSockets were the right protocol to use but there is a lot of work to do if you’re going to make them work reliably and robustly in production. Using Ably’s platform meant that within a week we had a first release and just a week later the chat looked the same for the end user, but it was a lot faster and our servers were a lot calmer!””

“To be an innovative company or product, you need to focus on what you're good at. We can’t manage infrastructure, realtime messaging, and WebSockets while focusing on enabling our customers to create really great events.”

““That's the value of working closely with a partner that's committed to growing with us. I strongly feel Ably has a similar philosophy to creating win-win relationship with customers as we do. That has been crucial over the last three years - as realtime has become ever more important in our product roadmaps, Ably has supported us at every step of the way.””

““Ably is so good, so solid. Every day it just works, so we’ve had no concerns about leaning ever more heavily on realtime as a core element of game experience,” Campise said.”

““Ably has absolutely brought a realtime zing to game play,” Campise explained. “When people are playing on the same couch, for instance, there is no waiting between turns. It feels instant for both users, and keeps the game moving. On top of that, knowing that Ably supports exactly once semantics also allows us to simplify game architecture and engineering.””

““Deployment really couldn't have been easier, especially given Ably already had the protocol adapter we needed. It was seamless. We were expecting a flood of support tickets but there were no fire drills. It just worked.””

““It was an easy choice in the end. Everything I was exposed to, whether talking to engineers or working on solution design told me that a lot of good decisions were being made at Ably. That, along with the quality of its solutions and a focus on collaboration made me very comfortable that we had found the right partner.”

“Ably was such an easy decision for PeopleFun. It was the only vendor out there about to offer all the realtime performance, integrity, and reliability we needed, but the real killer feature from our point of view was its partnership philosophy. That desire to grow with us, and the ability to scale without impacting our financial models really gave us the confidence to put realtime at the heart of our development roadmap - other realtime vendors simply could not offer that ability scale economically.””

“We’re not just benefiting from Ably’s ability to elasticity scale, but also from the freedom their SDKs give us to innovate. We can move a lot faster and think more creatively about the user experience we want to deliver.”

“Users aren't typically too forgiving if they're not able to get the data they signed on to get, they're going to leave immediately…..and most likely they're not going to come back and check later! We had to make sure that we were ready to handle a sudden influx of visitors, instantaneously. Ably takes away this headache. We're no longer concerned about, are we going to have enough bandwidth? Are we going to have enough servers? Are we going to be able to scale quickly enough to meet demand?”

“Ably set a new gold standard for the type of service we expect from third parties. They were present as we got the system up and running, proactively notifying us of unexpected usage spikes indicating suspected bugs so we could take pre-emptive measures. On top of that we got great support and advice on ways we could use Ably’s realtime functionality to immediately optimize our product suite.”