Evolution of Real-Time and AnyCable Pro and ... me
summary
AnyCable Pro launches in 2021 and the project grows from an open‑source drop‑in to a commercial product and an alpha managed service on Fly API; engineering delivers exactly-once delivery guarantees for WebSocket clients, session restore across redeploys, Hotwire and Apollo subscription integrations, a WebSocket load‑testing tool, and a simplified popup JS server mode. Early traction is six paying customers, $1M consulting revenue, then repeated ARR doubling as Managed AnyCable rolls out.
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chapters (26)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:47Live demo AnyCable WebSockets
- 3:56Real-time tools after WebSockets
- 4:39AnyCable journey Evil Martians
- 6:07Action Cable vs AnyCable origins
- 8:21Pandemic impact real-time
- 9:48Scaling challenges WebSockets
- 10:31Persistent connections cost
- 12:00Missing tooling AnyCable Pro
- 13:28Open source vs AnyCable Pro
- 15:16AnyCable Pro first customer
- 16:42AnyCable Hotwire expansion
- 17:43Marketing real-time reliability
- 18:47Connectivity real-time issues
- 20:14Reliable WebSockets restoration
- 21:38Redis-free AnyCable use cases
- 22:41AnyCable EV charging voice
- 23:47Service events growth
- 24:27AnyCable beyond Rails
- 26:14AnyCable managed service
- 27:20AnyCable telemetry
- 28:07ARR growth enterprise
- 28:49Frontend collaboration UI
- 30:35Personal journey imposter
- 32:25Call to action community
- 33:07AnyCable managed status
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