Stories by matt_oriordan

I made a children's book about WebSockets

Google (still) polling like it's the 90s for the World Cup

A look at what it has taken to raise capital, in SaaS, from 2016 to 2022

Isitdownrightnow.com Is Down (^ ‿ ⁢)

Stretching a point: the economics of elastic infrastructure

A real-world introduction to event-driven architecture

Migrating from Node Redis to Ioredis: a slightly bumpy but faster road

Periodic Table of Realtime: a compendium for all things event-driven and related

WebSockets vs. HTTP

Balancing act: the current limits of AWS network load balancers

AWS Australia network connectivity failures

The Ably Flutter Plugin

Achieving exactly-once message processing with Ably

AWS US East EC2 issues for 8 hours now

Delta Compression: A practical guide to diff algorithms and delta file formats

Cassandra counter columns: nice in theory, hazardous in practice

Exactly once semantics – idempotency with globally distributed systems

Technical debt: The good, the bad, and the reckless

Show HN: Native push notifications with a simple unified API from Ably

Upgrading to Node v8 has significantly reduced our operating costs