Ably Masterclass Episode 1 - Building a realtime voting app in less than an hour

In this masterclass, Ably’s Developer Advocate, Srushtika Neelakantam, spoke about realtime protocols and the various cool things you can do with them.

She then built a voting app from scratch that is production-ready and fully scalable. The app will show a dynamically changing graph reflecting the choices made by users on the voting questions, in realtime. Just some basic JavaScript knowledge is required to follow along.

Feel free to reach out to Srushtika via devrel@ably.io or Twitter (@Srushtika) to ask her any questions you may have.

Transcript

1. Building a realtime voting
   app in less than an hour
   Episode 1
   By Srushtika Neelakantam, Dev Advocate, Ably
   

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2. Ably - Serious realtime infrastructure
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   Hi there,
   I’m Srushtika
   Developer Advocate
   @Srushtika devrel@ably.io
   

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   AGENDA
   ● About Ably
   ● What is realtime?
   ● What will we build?
   ● Live coding!
   ● Ably Hub
   ● Live Q/A
   

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   About Ably
   Realtime messaging APIs
   for event-driven
   applications.
   ● Minimal latency
   ● Reliability
   ● Message ordering
   ● Scalability
   ● Protocol interoperability
   

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   What exactly is ‘realtime’?
   

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   REST requests
   

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   Long Polling
   

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   Realtime subscriptions
   

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9. What will we build?
   

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10. Let’s write some code
    

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12. Q&A
    

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13. That’s all folks!
    Thankyou.
    @Srushtika devrel@ably.io
    

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14. @Srushtika devrel@ably.io
    https://go.ably.io/dev-masterclass
    Don’t forget to register for the next
    episode of this masterclass series at
    

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