Ably was proud to celebrate our 8th birthday this year, and we’ve enjoyed reflecting on some of our achievements since launching in 2016. When we launched, we believed that realtime interactions would underpin our everyday digital experiences, rather than just augment them. And so we set out on a mission to build the definitive realtime experience platform.

React Native is an open-source framework that Meta (then Facebook) designed to build native applications for Android, iOS, and other platforms. The framework is built so anyone familiar with React can easily build cross-platform applications without learning a completely different framework or language. However, there are differences in the functionality of the two, including: There are many more differences, but we’ll get into those later in the post.

It’s not a surprise that in today’s challenging economic landscape, rising costs pose a significant threat to the telecommunications industry. Consider that in 2022, Bain Capital was predicting that Telcos would grapple with increased personnel and escalating operating costs due to inflation. And here we are.

A data catalog is a collection of metadata that acts as a comprehensive inventory of an organization’s data assets. It provides an overview of all the data available, regardless of its location or technical details. This collection helps analysts and other data users find the needed data.

At Qlik World 2023, Mike Capone stood on stage and proudly announced the acquisition of Talend to form Qlik’s Data Business Unit. The Data BU had the charter to combine the best of Qlik Data Integration with Talend and Stitch Data to deliver market-leading data integration and quality solutions.

The rise of AI brings unprecedented opportunities, deeply rooted in the transformative power of data. As organizations strive for smarter, faster outcomes—whether accelerating product launches, streamlining supply chains, improving customer experiences, or enhancing workforce productivity—they must address five key needs for enterprise AI adoption: Move/ Transform - To effectively adopt AI, companies need to bring together and transform data of all types from all sources.

Fivetran's new offering simplifies data lake table maintenance, delivering optimized, query-ready data that is always in sync.

Apps are the way to democratize AI: to make it accessible to everyone and streamline customers’ experiences with faster time to insights. According to a recent IDC survey, AI applications is currently the largest category of AI software, accounting for roughly one-half of the market’s overall revenue in 2023.

In today’s world, innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum; collaboration can help technological breakthroughs happen faster. The rise of AI, for example, will depend on the collaboration between data and development. We’re increasingly seeing software engineering workloads that are deeply intertwined with a strong data foundation.

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that enables you to run code without the need to provision or manage servers. This makes it an ideal choice for developers aiming to build scalable and efficient applications with minimal infrastructure overhead.