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Ably x MobyMax: Realtime infrastructure costs halved for 30 million users

50% reduction in realtime costs

Outage anxiety to infrastructure confidence

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Why it works

The case study earns its Efficiency tag by anchoring on a concrete cost reduction backed by a specific mechanism: message volume dropped from 2 billion to 500 million annually through optimization during migration, which directly produced the 50% cost figure. The Resilience angle is real but secondary; reliability was the trigger, not the headline result. The build-vs-buy detour in the solution section is a smart structural move that pre-empts the obvious objection and makes the vendor choice feel reasoned rather than inevitable.

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Include the customer's internal build-vs-buy deliberation, with their own cost-run conclusion, to neutralize the DIY objection before the reader raises it.

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  • Vendor Ably
  • Customer MobyMax
  • Industry Other
  • Trigger Previous realtime provider suffered repeated outages with unresponsive support and unexpected billing
  • Format Written narrative
  • Structure Challenge-Solution-Results
  • Medium Web page