In this post, we’ll show you how to use Next.js and Vercel to build a live link-sharing app. Users can share URLs of articles that they think might interest others, and anyone viewing the page will see the shared article appear instantly, together with a preview image and article summary: Along the way, in this article, you will learn how to: You can view the solution code on Github, or play with a live example.

In this post I'll explain how data is distributed in realtime using WebSockets in a serverless application running in Azure. The context I'll be using is a multiplayer Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (ADnD) style game that is turn-based with realtime state updates. You'll learn.

ISO 20022 is an international standard for exchanging electronic messages between banks and financial institutions. It gives the finance industry a common language and model for sending payment messages and exchanging payment data across the globe. ISO 20022 is an open global standard for financial information. It provides consistent, rich, structured data that can be used for every financial business transaction.

Here at Ably one of our most recent additions has been to introduce beta support for Unity within our.NET SDK. This has been exciting for us: multiplayer functionalities are at the core of so many games these days, and we’re keen to better support and enable developers in creating these amazing experiences.

Data travels at the speed of light, which we cannot control (yet), so when you contact a server, the greater the distance from your location, the slower the network performance.