Company
Date Published
May 21, 2024
Author
Faye McClenahan
Word count
893
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Ably LiveSync is now available for public testing and aims to simplify real-time data synchronization. It's designed to work with any tech stack and protect applications from inconsistencies caused by dual-writes and scaling problems due to thundering herds. The product has three key components: a Database Connector, Ably Pub/Sub Channels, and a Models SDK. In its alpha release, LiveSync supports PostgreSQL with plans for other databases in the future. It addresses real-time data synchronization challenges by eliminating polling, providing seamless database to frontend sync, enabling transactional publishing of changes, offering state management support, being database agnostic, and ensuring a highly reliable and scalable infrastructure.