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    WebSockets
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    Highly reliable
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    Massive scalability
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    SSE
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    Great technical support
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    Channel Presence
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    Consistently high performance
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    Free plan
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    Channel History
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    Message queueing
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    Global cloud network of data centers
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    WebHooks
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    MQTT
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    Third-party cloud integrations
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    What is Ably?

    Ably offers WebSockets, stream resume, history, presence, and managed third-party integrations to make it simple to build, extend, and deliver digital realtime experiences at scale.

    What is aptly?

    aptly is a swiss army knife for Debian repository management: it allows you to mirror remote repositories, manage local package repositories, take snapshots, pull new versions of packages along with dependencies, publish as Debian repository.

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