Matthew O'Riordan

Matthew O’Riordan is the CEO technical co-founder of Ably, the platform that powers synchronized digital experiences in realtime. Matthew has been a software engineer for over 20 years, many of those as a CTO. He first started working on commercial internet projects in the mid-1990s, when Internet Explorer 3 and Netscape were still battling it out. Whilst he enjoys coding, the challenges he faces as an entrepreneur starting and scaling businesses is what drives him. Matthew has previously started and successfully exited from two tech businesses.

Dependability is Crucial for Real-Time Experiences

February 15, 2022 | data integrity, dependability, downtime, infrastructure, performance, real-time, reliability, scalability

Millions of people around the world experienced a major disruption after an October 2021 outage saw Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram go offline. A few days prior, the popular workplace collaboration platform, Slack, ...