Real-time data delivery has improved my cloud-based peptide calculations and daily problem solving
What is our primary use case?
Ably helps me in many things, such as figuring out problems and getting things done in my day-to-day life.
For a specific example of how I use Ably in my work, I was creating a peptide calculator app and the data needs to be scalable, so I had to use Ably to deliver reliable and scalable data, which we need to store on the AWS cloud side. I have used Ably for this purpose.
Ably is a really good solution for scaling things that are on the cloud.
What is most valuable?
The best features Ably offers in my experience are the live leaderboards, the location tracking, and other capabilities.
Out of live data boards and location tracking, I find myself relying on the leaderboards the most.
Ably has positively impacted my organization because I was using it in my side project, and it has been very helpful. I have also used it in multiple big projects which I'm planning to do, so it will help us.
From using Ably in my side project, I've noticed specific outcomes such as time savings and increased reliability. It helped me with features for the peptide calculator, including one-to-one group and mass scalings.
What needs improvement?
I wish the real-time notifications can be improved a bit more.
Everything seems to be fine about the needed improvements overall. Ably is very highly reliable.
I choose nine out of ten because the notifications part can be seen to improve further. In some devices, it comes early, and in some, it doesn't, so the latency part needs improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Ably for six to seven months.
What other advice do I have?
I would advise others looking into using Ably based on the organization, as those who are more interested in the asset tracking, logistics parts, and the data broadcasting part should use Ably. Many multiple features can be explored based on current organization demands. I give this review a rating of nine out of ten.
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Quick to get a chat client experience up and running
What do you like best about the product?
We were able to build a chat client as a POC really quickly within our existing native apps with realtime push functionality. Integrated very easily within our react client using the hooks that Ably provide. Great customer support during our development from knowledgeable individuals.
What do you dislike about the product?
Understanding how our current realtime workload which uses a large number of dynamic channels would translate for the Ably pricing model.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We used ably realtime as a platform to provide realtime push for a feature that we built.
Ably has set us up for success to deliver live real-time experiences to millions of fans world wide
What do you like best about the product?
Ably has been a key part of how we deliver real-time race data across the NASCAR Tracks App, NASCAR Mobile App, and NASCAR.com. We use ABLY every weekend for NASCAR live events at scale.
1. True Low-Latency Performance
Ably delivers fast, reliable real-time data—crucial for race fans tracking every millisecond of on-track action. Whether it’s lap-by-lap leaderboards, in-car telemetry, or live timing, Ably keeps our apps perfectly in sync.
2. Scalable
We’ve seen Ably scale effortlessly across hundreds of thousands of users on race weekends without a hiccup. It gives us confidence to deliver a consistent experience no matter the event size.
3. Developer-Friendly APIs and SDKs
The implementation experience has been excellent. Ably’s well-documented APIs and flexible SDKs make it easy to integrate into both our web and mobile stacks—including our React Native-based Tracks app. We were able to integrate ABLY in to our workflows quicker than we originally planned due to their help, and well documented systems.
4. Pub/Sub Architecture That Just Works
Ably’s channel-based publish/subscribe model maps perfectly to our needs—streaming car position updates, driver audio triggers, and leaderboard changes to fans in real time.
6. Operational Transparency
We appreciate the real-time monitoring and analytics tools Ably provides. It helps our dev and ops teams understand traffic patterns, message throughput, and potential bottlenecks with zero guesswork. The customer support we receive is top tier as they are always available and quick to respond.
What do you dislike about the product?
If we had to nitpick, it would be that Ably offers so many powerful features, it can take some upfront planning to decide which capabilities to lean into. Learning the best ways to work with socket based applications, and message delivery / sizes was tricky but Ably had great documentation to assist.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ably delivers fast, reliable real-time data—crucial for race fans tracking every millisecond of on-track action. Whether it’s lap-by-lap leaderboards, in-car telemetry, or live timing, Ably keeps our apps perfectly in sync across all of our products
An awesome technolgy which help us to connect to our user.
What do you like best about the product?
It has a great feature that makes it easier for us to send real-time messages and stay connected to specific users without conflicting with other customers. Ably also provides support for multiple programming languages, making it easy to use both on the backend server and in frontend applications. Additionally, Ably has a responsive customer service team that helps us with support and answers any questions when we encounter issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
One aspect I think will be helpful for us in the future is the reporting feature, which allows us to see if messages have been delivered to a specific channel in real time. Since, sometimes it's struggle to make sure if all the message has been delivered properly from the server into the front end.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Maintaining communication between the frontend and backend is a crucial requirement, and Ably helps us achieve that. It provides an easy way to send messages to the frontend, specifically targeting certain users. Additionally, Ably supports sending push notifications, which are compatible with both Android and iOS platforms.
Reliable and easy to implement
What do you like best about the product?
The support team is great. BDR interested in what we do and provides a new perspective in development.
Easy to integrate.
What do you dislike about the product?
You need to keep an eye on the budget. The pricing may have some nuances.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In-app notifications and possiby push notifications in the future.
Reliable like swiss clockwork
What do you like best about the product?
We use Ably to send out push notifications and rely on it quite heavily. We decided to go with Ably years ago to avoid having to build or manage it ourselves. It was very easy to set up and reasonable when it came to pricing, so we decided to go for "buy" rather than "build.
Years later, we still use Ably for all push notifications. Initially, we thought we'd use Ably until the cost started to increase and it would be worth managing the push notification service ourselves. But the fact that we don't have to worry about them, and that the price increase due to increased traffic has been reasonable has made it that it's still not a priority Today.
What do you dislike about the product?
Of course, we'd love to see lower prices, but the ease of mind we get for it makes it worth the money.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our application has many async processes as they often take a fair amount of time (optimization problems, data processing) or are related to real time events. Ably allows us to give our customers the experience they are looking for, always with the latest information, always on top of things.
Save us during the incident
What do you like best about the product?
Our customer success reactivity.
We deployed a new code that led to an explosion in the number of calls we made to Ably. Ably removed our limit to prevent blocking our feature before we needed to ask them, giving us time to adjust our code.
We also like the Terraform provider to create all our apps.
What do you dislike about the product?
Monitoring integration with Datadog is not included in all plans.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Shared messaging across multiple devices
Good product and great customer support
What do you like best about the product?
I was researching ably products to design a solution to meet business needs. I had some questions about the product and it was really fast and easy to reach out to customer support personal who knew technical information about the product in details. Questions were answered quickly and to the point.
What do you dislike about the product?
FAQ could be expanded and articles be kept up to date as the product matures.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Read from kafka topics and update information on user device.
Stable, scalable, very easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
Ably is a solid platform. It's stable, scalable, very easy to use, well documented, and it evolves constantly. The console application makes setting up integrations to cloud services very easy (we use AWS). Client libraries are performant, and we didn’t have any problems with them (we used JS/Java/Go clients). We didn’t use much customer support, but when we did, they were responsive, and helped us solve issues with ease.
We used the platform often for communcation between our services and a client facing app, and it served that purpose well.
What do you dislike about the product?
We didn't encounter any significat problems.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Enabling real time communication between backend and frontend application.
No service disruptions / working without issues
What do you like best about the product?
works without issues. we using for chat mostly.
What do you dislike about the product?
nothing specific. works without issue for us
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
using for chat tech across multiple games.
