Developer inspiration: live features showcase with Ably examples
The text discusses the importance of a reliable realtime core for applications that involve live virtual events, chats or document collaborations. It highlights three reasons why maintaining such reliability is challenging: unpredictable user joining times, increasing complexity with growing user numbers, and managing messages when connections drop. Additionally, it emphasizes the need for feature-rich applications to enhance user experience. The text also provides examples of enriched realtime functionality that can be added using Ably's APIs such as Presence, History, and Message Interactions. It mentions various use cases like chat rooms, multi-user virtual spaces, live BI dashboards, collaborative presentation software, and live B2B chat where these features can be applied. The text concludes by encouraging readers to explore more examples on the Examples page and contribute their own realtime applications to the community.
Company
Ably
Date published
Sept. 8, 2022
Author(s)
Vrush Sumanoharan
Word count
470
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None found.
Language
English