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BuildJul 28, 2019

Add Turn-by-Turn Navigation with Mapbox Directions API

Mapbox Directions API provides a variety of navigation features for driving, cycling and walking, including turn-by-turn directions, traffic-aware routing, and ETA calculation. And with Mapbox, all your functionality is overlayed on one of their many beautiful vector maps. In this tutorial, we’ll...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildJul 28, 2019

Embed a Static Map and Update Geolocation with Mapbox

Mapbox is a flexible platform that provides a ton of awesome mapping and geolocation APIs. At PubNub, we love Mapbox because you can now build beautiful and interactive geolocation and tracking apps by integrating real-time functionality. With that, we’ve launched a number of Mapbox BLOCKS in our...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildJul 28, 2019

Multiplayer Gaming Basics Using Phaser – Occupancy Counter

How to build a JavaScript occupancy counter for multiplayer games that automatically updates a counter based on new users going online or offline.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
Real-time Visualizations and Dashboards with Epoch
BuildJul 28, 2019

Real-time Visualizations & Dashboards with Epoch and Python

There are a ton of dashboard and visualization tools out there – D3.js, EON and others, some of which you can find tutorials on right here at PubNub’s blog. In this tutorial, we’ll look at another option, Epoch, a general purpose real-time charting library for building beautiful, smooth,...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildJul 28, 2019

Real-time User and Device Detection with Presence

How to use Presence for real-time user and device detection.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildJul 25, 2019

Real-time Machine Learning: Online Learning with PubNub

Exploring one of the most popular machine learning algorithms in real time data streaming, online learning, including theory and building a machine learning model.

Cameron Akhavan
Cameron Akhavan
Developer Relations Engineer, PubNub
BuildJul 22, 2019

Making Chatbots Talk with IBM Watson Text-to-Speech

How to build a chatbot application that analyzes a stream of text, and uses Watson text-to-speech to speak based on customized thresholds.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
InsightsJul 5, 2019

Amazon EC2: Reduce Server Costs, Get the Most at Scale

EC2 tuning for +1M TCP connections using Linux

Stephen Blum
Stephen Blum
CTO, PubNub
Real-time charts highcharts pubnub
BuildJul 3, 2019

Build a Real-time Voting or Polling App using Highcharts

Create an interactive, live-updating voting and polling app with a wide variety of chart options – spline, pie, column, bar and more.

Chandler Mayo
Chandler Mayo
Solution Engineer, PubNub