matt_oriordan

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by matt_oriordan 17d ago
Hi HN, Matt here, co-founder of Ably. I built this after Jev landed on Vercel's AI Gateway: https://github.com/ably-labs/jev-pong It's pong where the ball moves one step per model decision. Four lanes, one mo
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Show HN: Jev vs. GPT-5.6 and Claude Haiku at Pong(jev-pong.ably.dev)
10 points by matt_oriordan 17d ago|4 comments
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Durable, durable, durable: the AI infrastructure category is forming(blog.mattheworiordan.com)
10 points by matt_oriordan 5mo ago|0 comments
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by matt_oriordan 9mo ago
Nice. I have spoken to literally 30+ developers who have hit these exact problems. I would have though, I am the co-founder of Ably and we were doing product validation
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by matt_oriordan 11mo ago
Oh, I'll take a look :/
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I made a children's book about WebSockets(websocket.org)
9 points by matt_oriordan 11mo ago|4 comments
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by matt_oriordan 11mo ago
An illustrated WebSocket history by the author of WebSocket.org
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by matt_oriordan 2y ago
Ably’s LiveSync ( https://ably.com/livesync ) is conceptually designed to solve exactly this problem by providing a database connector that subscribes to changes committed using the outbox pattern, and a models SDK to subscri
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by matt_oriordan 3y ago
Wow, that didn't last long! This can only be an acquihire given Sunil worked at Cloudflare before.
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by matt_oriordan 3y ago
Quite frankly whilst I have no love for Meta, if they are willing to spend stupendous amounts of money to open source their AI models, yet prevent use of this by companies who reach 700 million MAUs from benefiting from this investment, the
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Google (still) polling like it's the 90s for the World Cup(ably.com)
2 points by matt_oriordan 4y ago|0 comments
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by matt_oriordan 4y ago
I am one of the co-founders of https://ably.com . We have built a Serverless websockets platform that is near infinitely scalable and designed to handle the complexity you’re describing such as cluster resizing, connection failur
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by matt_oriordan 4y ago
Been using this site for years, it's a far better way of consuming HN IMHO
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SaaS Funding Napkin trends from 2016-2022(medium.com)
1 points by matt_oriordan 4y ago|0 comments
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A look at what it has taken to raise capital, in SaaS, from 2016 to 2022(medium.com)
1 points by matt_oriordan 4y ago|0 comments
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Isitdownrightnow.com Is Down (*^ ‿ ⁢*)(twitter.com)
3 points by matt_oriordan 4y ago|0 comments
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by matt_oriordan 5y ago
Hello everyone, this is a new post from the Ably Engineering series. This time, we talk about a very important topic in cloud computing: autoscaling. Hope you like it and let me know if you have any questions!
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Stretching a point: the economics of elastic infrastructure(ably.com)
6 points by matt_oriordan 5y ago|1 comments
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by matt_oriordan 5y ago
Awesome article. The author has absolutely nailed the issues one faces with distributed systems under stress.
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by matt_oriordan 5y ago
I understand the SOC2 requirement, which is why we're SOC2 compliant. A long and painful process, but one that has opened up opportunities like the one you said would otherwise require an on-prem installation. We have in fact also got
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by matt_oriordan 5y ago
Thanks for the explanation, useful to know.
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by matt_oriordan 5y ago
Feel free to sign up for an Ably account and we'll help support your project with a community package, we love what you're doing!
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by matt_oriordan 5y ago
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
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by matt_oriordan 5y ago
That's surprising to hear, we definitely don't see anywhere near the order of 5-10%, at best on order of magnitude less. Out of interest, what geography and industries are you operating in where you see such a high rate of incompa
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by matt_oriordan 5y ago
Yup, true, although tokens should be ephemeral so less of a risk. Authenticating inline over the Websocket connection is valid too, but it does expose the socket connections to slightly more surface area of attack i.e. if you pass in a toke
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by matt_oriordan 5y ago
Yup, and it supports Ably too, see https://js.m-ld.org/#ably-remotes ! Matt, Ably co-founder
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by matt_oriordan 5y ago
We are monitoring it closely and super excited about what WebTransport will provide, which is both a more reliable and in many cases more performant transport. However, much like WebSockets, it's still quite low level and only provide
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by matt_oriordan 5y ago
I know, we're very excited about WebTransport and what it can offer. As you say, on the surface it seems to provide both a more performant and reliable transport for realtime communications. Once it hits mainstream, we'll be cert
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by matt_oriordan 5y ago
Thanks ddoolin. I am not sure which company you are, but I appreciate your comments and even more happy to hear you feel we're doing a fantastic job! You've sort of encapsulated why we exist: we know software engineers can build
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by matt_oriordan 5y ago
I am surprised to hear about on-prem deploys when the direction of travel is towards serverless/cloud solutions that don't require orchestration. Out of interest, why is on-prem so important for your use case? Separately, I'

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