How to
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Collaboration
Build Collaborative Applications
Follow this how-to and learn how you can build and power your real-time collaborative applications with PubNub.
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Virtual Events
How to Build Chat for Virtual Events
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.
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PubNub portal
Enabling Persistence
Follow this how-to to enable Persistence in the Admin Portal to persist all messages as they're published.
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PubNub portal
Creating Keys
Follow this how-to on creating keys in the Admin Portal to connect your application to the PubNub network.
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PubNub portal
Enabling Files
Follow this how-to on enabling Files in the Admin Portal to upload and share files.
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PubNub portal
Enabling Objects
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.
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Geolocation
How to Explore Real-time Geolocation Solutions
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.
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IoT
How to develop an IoT solution with PubNub
Learn how to develop an IoT solution with PubNub, allowing you to monitor and control a global fleet of IoT devices in real-time
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Collaboration
How to call PubNub from Alexa
Amazon’s Echo is the market leading smart speaker and we see an increasing number of customers want to integrate Alexa into their PubNub solution