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Learn about new PubNub releases, industry trends, and app development tips.

GamingMar 7, 2017

Building a Multiplayer Hangman Game for iOS in Swift

With the launch of PubNub BLOCKS last year, PubNub extended its functionality to enable you to execute functions on your data streaming over the PubNub network. And it fits in great with simple turn-based multiplayer games for both web and mobile. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through a simple...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
InsightsMar 2, 2017

Why the Future May Not Be Serverless

In this talk from Stream Conf 2016, Charity Majors and Mark Ferlatte explore alternatives to putting all our eggs in the serverless basket.

Developer Relations Team
Developer Relations Team
InsightsFeb 27, 2017

How Always-on Apps are Driving Microservices to the Edge

o truly meet the needs of real-time, always-on apps, serverless platforms must evolve from the cloud to the network, and harness the power of microservices.

Developer Relations Team
Developer Relations Team
InsightsFeb 24, 2017

How Our Backend Became 10x Faster with Streaming Rows

What started out as a neat little experiment using AWS Lambdas to stream processed data to RDS Clusters, at the beginning of 2016, has led to a slew of discoveries regarding major databases, cost-effectiveness, and the delicate balance between computation and I/O speeds.

Developer Relations Team
Developer Relations Team
News Feb 21, 2017

Young Programmers Impress at San Mateo Hacks

A wrap up of the SM Hacks hackathon at San Mateo Highschool, including the winners and the technologies and APIs they used.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
ChatFeb 10, 2017

Inspire Chat Powers Interactive Group Chat With PubNub

How Inspire Chat built an interactive web, iOS, and Android group chat app with PubNub.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
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BuildFeb 7, 2017

Build a Proof of Existence Service in the Blockchain

Esteban Herrera has more than twelve years of experience in the software development industry, and having worked in many roles and projects, he has found his passion in programming with Java and JavaScript. Nowadays, he spends most of his time as an independent software developer, learning new things,...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
InsightsFeb 6, 2017

Programmable Network to Weave Business Logic into Your App

A programmable network allows you to execute functions on your data while it is in-transit between devices, in real time, over a network. And to execute that specific function, you don’t have to add additional servers for the stream processing – it all takes place while your data...
Developer Relations Team
Developer Relations Team
BuildJan 30, 2017

Real-time Text Analysis & Categorization with Diffbot

Our new Diffbot block for analyzing and extracting web data allows you to process incoming real-time messages with attached URLs, and amend website contextual information to that stream.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll