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LiveView is a compelling choice for building modern web apps. Built on top of Elixir's OTP tooling, and leveraging WebSockets, it offers super fast real-time, interactive features alongside impressive developer productivity. In this post, we'll show you how to secure your live view routes with function plugs and group live routes in a secure live session. Let's dive straight in!

Data has long been a critical asset for businesses like yours to understand customers, operate more efficiently, inform go-to-market strategies, and retain your best employees. In a digital world, capturing and creating data-driven insights provides a major competitive advantage for those who can turn insights into action.

This short post by a member of Ably's engineering team describes how we resolved a problem that is typical of the challenges we face each week. We thrive on solving hard distributed system problems that are mostly platform agnostic and theoretical in nature, and this is the first post in a long-term series of articles about things we've learned recently.

TL; DR: Based on the APM benchmarks results is evident that one of the main performance problems for a Node.js application in a production environment is the usage of the very same applications in charge of monitoring the performance for the application itself. This article explains the reasons with an in-depth analysis to show why using most APMs in a Node.js application is that expensive performance-wise.