Ably Blog Reduce bandwidth and processing overhead with conflated subscriptions

For some realtime applications, the latest state matters more than the full stream of updates. If you're tracking stock prices, monitoring live sports scores, or displaying GPS locations, you don't need to process and transmit every intermediate update-just the most recent one. To help you minimize bandwidth usage, processing costs, and system load, we've introduced conflated subscriptions to Ably Pub/Sub. With conflated subscriptions, subscribers receive only the latest message within a defin