Our customers use Ably across such a diverse set of use cases, but here's a few:
1. Sports events streaming live updates (see https://ausopen.com/live-scores, we are streaming live scores for the Tennis Australian Open right now). Companies like Toyota even use us to facilitate engineers tweaking the performance characteristics of their cars in realtime remotely.
2. Edtech - we have numerous customers using us to drive live classroom environments, think shared white boards, collaborative tests, presence, teacher engagement. You may have used Codewars in the past, that uses Ably under the hood for example, https://www.codewars.com/.
3. Live screen sharing and collaborative applications. You may have used the amazing Tuple.app, that uses Ably under the hood https://tuple.app/.
4. Collaborative and live web and mobile SaaS applications, where changes need to occur concurrently, notifications need to be presented, and other realtime updates are needed in the interface. You've probably heard of Hubspot, they use Ably under the hood to power their collaborative and live features, https://hubspot.com
5. Developer infrastructure and platforms that need realtime capabilities at scale. You have probably come across Split, the leading feature flag company backed by Atlassian and Microsoft. They use Ably under the hood to power billions of feature flag updates in realtime each month. https://www.split.io/
6. Financial market data - typically streaming updates to thousands or millions of subscribers with very low latency, and sometimes using features like Deltas (https://ably.com/documentation/realtime/channels/channel-par...) to keep bandwidth & latency as low as possible.
I could keep going, but I hope that gives you the idea, realtime is not just for Christmas or for Games :)
1. Sports events streaming live updates (see https://ausopen.com/live-scores, we are streaming live scores for the Tennis Australian Open right now). Companies like Toyota even use us to facilitate engineers tweaking the performance characteristics of their cars in realtime remotely.
2. Edtech - we have numerous customers using us to drive live classroom environments, think shared white boards, collaborative tests, presence, teacher engagement. You may have used Codewars in the past, that uses Ably under the hood for example, https://www.codewars.com/.
3. Live screen sharing and collaborative applications. You may have used the amazing Tuple.app, that uses Ably under the hood https://tuple.app/.
4. Collaborative and live web and mobile SaaS applications, where changes need to occur concurrently, notifications need to be presented, and other realtime updates are needed in the interface. You've probably heard of Hubspot, they use Ably under the hood to power their collaborative and live features, https://hubspot.com
5. Developer infrastructure and platforms that need realtime capabilities at scale. You have probably come across Split, the leading feature flag company backed by Atlassian and Microsoft. They use Ably under the hood to power billions of feature flag updates in realtime each month. https://www.split.io/
6. Financial market data - typically streaming updates to thousands or millions of subscribers with very low latency, and sometimes using features like Deltas (https://ably.com/documentation/realtime/channels/channel-par...) to keep bandwidth & latency as low as possible.
I could keep going, but I hope that gives you the idea, realtime is not just for Christmas or for Games :)
Matt, co-founder of ably.com