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Virtual events need chat to keep users engaged, but it's often a challenge to build a chat solution that works at scale and can handle the network load surges that occur during popular events. As a developer, you need to select a robust backend API provider capable of transmitting and receiving the high volume of messages that your viewers and participants generate.

Follow this how-to to enable Persistence in the Admin Portal to persist all messages as they're published.

Follow this how-to on creating keys in the Admin Portal to connect your application to the PubNub network.

Follow this how-to on enabling Files in the Admin Portal to upload and share files.

Follow this how-to on enabling Objects in the Admin Portal to to store metadata for users, channels, and memberships without the need of setting up your own database.

Follow this how-to to learn more about how you can leverage push notifications in your application to better keep your users engaged and informed.

This how-to will explain real-time geolocation services for developers, what to consider while building geolocation features, and how PubNub can make it easy to stream and use real-time location data.

Follow this how-to to enable PubNub's Mobile Push Gateway in the Admin Portal to send your iOS users push notifications and alerts using APNs.

Read our complete guide on how to filter Events using the Advanced JSONPath Filter in Events & Actions. In this guide, you’ll learn the different filter options available to you in E&A, what is JSONPath, and how to format complex JSONPath Filter Expressions to filter for the Events you need.