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Your @OpenAI agent's answer now survives a refresh or a dropped connection, because the reply lives on a session instead of on the connection. Any device can pick the same thread back up. Demo: ably.com/blog/ai-transport-o… #AIAgents

The scariest sound this Halloween is your notification tone. 📱

Storing every chunk of a streamed AI answer can mean thousands of writes. Ably message appends keep each answer as one message: ably.com/blog/backpressure-i…

A fallback doesn’t help if it shares the dependency that took down your primary. Ably’s SDKs can route around our CloudFront path using fallbacks on a separate domain and DNS provider. It can add latency. Slower beats down. More from Matt Hammond: ably.com/blog/aws-engineers-…

A user refreshes halfway through an AI response. What comes back? Store tokens as separate events, and every client has to rebuild the answer. We compared four ways to store streamed AI responses, and how Ably’s message appends solve it: ably.com/blog/store-streamed…

WebSockets let users interrupt or approve an AI agent mid-stream. They don’t handle session recovery, fan-out or delivery guarantees on their own. When does running that layer yourself make sense? Here's a breakdown of the technical and cost trade-offs: ably.com/blog/websockets-bea…

Guaranteeing WebSocket order in production isn't a one-time fix. TCP's guarantee ends at one connection. So past that, sticky routing, a shared coordination layer, and replay sequencing are system requirements. But should you manage the infra? ably.com/blog/websocket-orde…

Fin's Colin Kennedy, on deciding whether to keep maintaining your own WebSocket infra for AI streaming: "Is maintaining this system helping you build a better product?" The framework to work through that decision: ably.com/blog/websockets-ai-…

Building LLM streaming? You've probably got session IDs, a Redis buffer, and dedup logic. That's five systems you maintain forever, and there's a sneakier failure too: streams that look fine while nothing confirms delivery. The fix: ably.com/blog/resume-tokens-… #AIEngineering

Your AI agent goes quiet mid-task. Thinking, stalled, or dead? From the client, you can't tell. That's because most AI infrastructure has no signal for it, as Vercel's own maintainers have said. Ably AI Transport gives you one. ably.com/blog/ai-agent-model…

Three agents check flights, hotels, visa rules in parallel. Your UI: one status line, "Working on it..." That's structural. Change a hotel mid-search, and the UI won't show it until the orchestrator reports back. See what real collaboration needs. ably.com/blog/multi-agent-ai…

Presence and shared state used to mean building your own layer for it. AI Transport v0.3.0 builds presence in: one call answers whether the agent is online and who else is watching. LiveObjects, opt-in, syncs shared state too. See what shipped, with code. ably.com/blog/introducing-ai…

Your AI chat demo works ✅ Then you ship it - and a refresh mid-response restarts the conversation 🔄 HTTP streaming hits limits past simple prompt-response: - Lost context on refresh - No agent visibility - Can't interrupt a stream See how a session layer fixes this - and when you need to introduce one. ably.com/blog/ai-stack-sessi…

Model providers handle inference. Agent frameworks handle orchestration. Temporal makes the backend crash-proof. Every layer has a name. Except for the one between the agent and the user's device. Discover what this looks like 👇 ably.com/blog/stateful-agent…

Workflow Streams lets a client watch output. It can't send anything back. Fine, until someone needs to step in mid-task. There's no way in: redirecting means starting over and losing progress. We break down where Workflow Streams ends and what needs to sit alongside it. ably.com/blog/temporal-workf…

A third person joins an AI conversation an hour in. In most products, they're starting from zero. A durable session catches them up automatically: full history, no special load-history call, same mechanism as a page refresh or device switch. We show exactly how this works in a real demo. Worth seeing end to end 👇 ably.com/blog/durable-sessio…