>What nothing we've found out there do (except perhaps kedro) is model the "micro" -- E.G. the specific fine-grained dependencies so you can take a look at your code and figure out how exactly it works.
Just wondering then @elijahbenizzy - how does Hamilton differ from Kedro?
>Pretty cool when you're added to a new project, have no idea what people have been working on for the past 2 months there and want to see where most of the actual effort was focused.
Disclaimer: both the author of the article and the OP for this post (me) work for Ably.
The post compares two cloud pubsub services: Azure Web PubSub and Ably in terms of ease of development, creating a collaborative multi-user pixelart drawing app with both services.
Conclusions:
Both Azure Web PubSub and Ably offer a similar pubsub feature set, but the Ably API was easier to use (although comes with the disclaimer that the author has used Ably more in the past).
Being able to publish named events and subscribe to them (client-side) without the need of handling them via an upstream server and custom event handlers was an advantage, while a potential downside is the use of a third party library increases the download size of the app.
I've worked from home for years and agree with much of this. It isn't just the "office at home" it's a totally different mindset. It's probably only in my most recent job that I've really _got_ that, and that is because my company is fully remote so everyone is doing it. Nobody feels left out by being at home, and nobody expects synchronous communication or presenteeism.
Thanks for posting this. Full disclosure: I'm the author. I also work for Ably, which is what the post is about, and I'm a content writer so there is inescapably some marketing in it.
But I hope it's valid because, if you try to build a multi-region system for low-latency data transfer across regions, there are issues like discovery and synchronisation to consider.
I think it may be interesting to see how Ably is architected so its pub/sub messaging is realtime and reliable.
For example, how do the EC2 instances in one region find those in another? How does a published message in one region get to a client subscriber in another?
Short answer is infrastructure for event-driven architecture that is close to the edge so it can distribute events with low latency.
Longer answer is to take a look at some of the Ably blog posts linked in the post here, since they'll explain why Gartner have named this as a category for event-driven brokers.
Thanks for your feedback! I'm not sure I said it's a good user interface (I'm not a visual person so wouldn't have the confidence) but I do think it's a good example of a set of features that show a community interacting in realtime. Maybe I didn't make that clear in the article so I'll bear in mind for future writing. TY!
Thanks for your feedback. Could you elaborate a little? I'm not being snarky -- I came up with them based on similar things I'd seen online and I'm not great at visual communication, so if you've improvement suggestions, I'd genuinely like to hear them.
I'm the author of this article and would appreciate any feedback/thoughts. I included just a few examples on the graphic (mostly from memory as I was lucky enough to come of age in 1990 so lived through it).
I remember when Yahoo mail came along with AJAX and how astonishing it was to not have to refresh to get new mail. Although, over a dial up connection, I'm not sure how "realtime" anything was :)
Not accidentally omitted; we didn't share them because they're not that meaningful without full context of how Ably works internally. The data was useful to the Ably team as they made a decision about whether Graviton would be suitable. It may be possible to share the information anyway if you're interested. I'll find out...
Was it just me that misread the title initially? Though I think I'd probably be equally good at recognizing human faeces as I've worked my way through a bunch of pets and kids and consider poop my specialist subject.
It is part of LF and is a graduate now after being contributed in 2021.