3 fundamentals for building realtime updates in sports, media, and entertainment apps

Realtime updates are essential for sports fans, news enthusiasts, and pop culture aficionados who expect instantaneous information on their preferred topics. The infrastructure supporting these real-time updates is a significant technical challenge due to the need for reliability, scalability, and data integrity at massive scale. Companies must maintain low latency while ensuring that each data point is accurate, only sent once, and follows other updates in the correct order. Meeting these expectations is crucial as seemingly small problems can effectively disrupt the entire experience. Building an in-house realtime infrastructure is difficult and costly, but with solutions like Ably, companies can deliver real-time experiences without needing to build the infrastructure themselves.