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Create real-time graphs without code! With PubNub’s Project EON you can create real-time graphs that update when you publish data over PubNub. EON works with any of the 70+ SDKs available. Check out our libraries for Javascript, Python, Ruby, and Arduino. If you need help getting started with EON, check...

Good News! We’ve launched an all new Chat Resource Center. We recommend checking out our new Chat Resource Center, which includes overviews, tutorials, and design patterns for building and deploying mobile and web chat. Take me to the Chat Resource Center → One of the most common use-cases of PubNub...

Recently, I have become interested in using RethinkDB as my preferred document based database. Although RethinkDB and MongoDB have their own similarities and differences, it’s RethinkDB’s real-time web feature and their query language that has impressed me the most. If you have been following my...

Streams are a very powerful concept. They are programming constructs which move data between objects and services without having to manually loop through the data, which is one reason why they are so popular. Twitter has streams, NodeJS has streams, Java 8 has streams, and even RSS feeds can be represented...

Internet of Things is all about building connected devices, applications and services rapidly. Software and hardware engineers are equally involved and, with the right tools, it is easy to build a working prototype in minutes. And this is exactly what we did. We chose our favorite board, the Arduino...

We are happy to announce that PubNub can now be used in Windows 10 Universal App Platform (UAP) applications. Building Windows apps with PubNub is quite easy. To follow these instructions you’ll need Windows 10 (obviously) and Visual Studio. The Visual Studio Community Edition 2015 will work fine. Requirements...

As part of our AngularJS series we invited Isaiah Grey of Stamplay to show us how to build a collaborative shopping list with PubNub and their service. Stamplay is a service for building application backends using a variety of services. Payment processors, user authentication, and text messaging, can...

As part of our new AngularJS series, we invited Katie Ginder-Vogel from Ionic to tell us about some of the cool things people have built with Ionic. Ionic is an open source mobile platform built on AngularJS, with a rich ecosystem of tools to help you quickly build and ship quality mobile apps.  –...

Over the last decade, we have realized how to make more informed decisions by harnessing the power of data. There is one noticeable trend in this entire buzz: infographics. Infographics are a way of presenting data in a visually engaging way. As the old adage goes, “A picture is worth a thousand words.”...